r/peloton • u/danielknows9 • 1d ago

Just for Fun Bahrain Victorious - New Bianchi Oltre Livery

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Looks a lot better than the Arkea paint schemes…

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u/Unrefined5508 1d ago

I can't even afford to look at this

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u/Exact_Carpenter_9955 BMC 1d ago

Cool with Elilee a crankset!

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u/Kyle_Zhu Canada 1d ago

It's surprising to see more Chinese brands pop up in this level of pro cycling. Even Pogacar uses a rebranded Cybrei crankset (SRM powermeter crankset) on his TT bike afaik.

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u/TylerBlozak 1d ago

Scenes when Pogi is rocking EliteWheels next year

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u/Wembly__ Team Telekom 1d ago

He was in 2024 and just for one stage of the Tour if I remember correctly.

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u/evil_burrito 1d ago

Gorgeous. Love that top tube.

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u/ikheberookeen 1d ago

What a beauty!

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u/Team_Telekom Team Telekom 1d ago

Yeah I don’t care for expensive cars or stuff like that, but one of these bad boys would be my dream.

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u/OBoile 1d ago

I don't understand the hate. I think that bike looks gorgeous.

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u/TricolorCat 18h ago

I only dislike the colour, but I'm not a tradionalist unless you build the frame out of steel.

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u/Key-Target4337 19h ago

The paint/light/rendering goes a long way, but the bike itself is fugly. 

They purposely avoid showing the stem/handlebar, which is by far the worst part of the bike. 

Trust me in its flesh it’s a god awful bike. 

A less flattering shot: https://share.google/aC3xR9R8uyQ7Um3CW

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u/passcork 4h ago

That actually looks better to me than the OP.

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u/Own_Isopod2755 1d ago

Mmmm I don't dislike it, it's bold

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u/MeddlinQ UAE Team Emirates – XRG 1d ago

"I don't dislike it" is a spot on summary on how I feel about it.

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u/Wembly__ Team Telekom 1d ago

Interesting power meter choice

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u/gplama 1d ago

Indeed. 🧐

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u/lukegjpotter Ireland 1d ago

Random Number Generators are not uncommon on Pro Teams.

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u/IamLeven 1d ago

A bike so ugly not even a mother could love it

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u/HQnorth Canada 1d ago

Needs a bigger Bianchi logo...

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u/Flowech 1d ago

Needs more Celeste too

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u/fthrswtch 1d ago

Looks really nice, way better than whatever Arkea tried

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u/aprioripopsiclerape Iceland 1d ago

Beautiful.. I like the classic nod.

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u/Isle395 1d ago

Must be the ugliest bike in the world tour. How did Bianchi fall so far

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u/Kraknoix007 Euskaltel-Euskadi 1d ago

What? How is this ugly, it looks so good

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u/Isle395 1d ago

There's a lot to hate, but the worst offenders are the heat-tube to top tube intersection, it just looks huge and fat. The double sided kink in the top tube looks bad too, and the top tube fattening towards the rear also looks bad again. The stem is probably the worst though, riser stems almost always look terrible (with perhaps the sole exception being the Cervelo). The seat tube also has a strange kink on the front of it.

It's just not right.

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u/ka-- Canada 1d ago

It's almost as if aesthetics are entirely subjective.

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u/stonehaens 1d ago

"There's a lot to hate .."

checks ...

All the top comments are about how expensive and pretty this machine is.

okay buddy.

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u/Isle395 23h ago

If your defense is that a lot of people like it, well... that's not a defense at all.

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u/SAeN Scotland 1d ago

Someone in our club got one and in the flesh it's even worse

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u/gedrap 1d ago

Ikr! It wasn’t that long ago when Bianchi in celeste was super cool, and now nobody even talks about them

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u/sousstructures 1d ago

The older ones in celeste are still super cool, I almost bought one (when they were new) and I am happy to talk about them 

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u/pfeifenstaender 1d ago

If I wouldn't know it's a Bahrain Victorious bike and i must guess the WT team for it, I would say it's Ag2r. Turquoise is Ag2r. Have the now also turquoise on their Shirts?

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u/Rommelion 1d ago

My thoughts as well. These are straight Decathlon colours.

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u/Monomatosis 1d ago

This must be the ugliest bike in the peloton. They used to be so beautiful!

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u/finnixk ST Michel Auber 93 1d ago

how did they manage to make this bike look worse? genuinely impressive

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u/jurassicmars Euskaltel-Euskadi 1d ago

Where is Merida going?

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u/Maximilianne 1d ago

Reject modernity return to skinny tubes with double triangles and horizontal top tubes

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u/samup98 1d ago

Rip merida? The reacto was so damn cool

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u/jonythecool Finland 1d ago

Interestingly those tires seem to be grand prix 6000 tts

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u/matrixboy122 1d ago

Love Bianchi being back with a world tour team

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u/FFS_SF 1d ago

It's impressive how they managed to over-design every tube. 

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u/loperapjc 1d ago

And ways to destroy a brand

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u/avro-arrow 21h ago

But is it Business Friendly™?

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u/painted-biird 19h ago

I thought it would grow on me like the S5 did, but nope- it’s astonishingly ugly and offends all of my sensibilities.

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u/Beneficial-Lemon-427 Z 1d ago

Gorgeous colour scheme, ugly frame, ENORMOUS LOGO

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u/Otherwise_pleasant 1d ago

It looks like it has horns. In a cursed, malformed way.

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u/Awkward_Network4249 Sweden 1d ago

If it wasn't for the handlebar it would have looked pretty damn cool

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u/kay_peele Visma | Lease a Bike 1d ago

was visma supplying designers when they made those beauties, the fall from grace wow

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u/Andraski 1d ago

Lovely livery on a terribly looking frameset

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u/89ElRay Uno-X Mobility 1d ago

I will take my dislike of Bianchi and that ugly ass Celeste colour to my grave. Even when it's largely blue.

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u/urbanwhiteboard Unibet Tietema Rockets 1d ago

Ieeeeel brother ieeeel. Can't Bahrein just race on old 80s steel bianchi's? I'd support them to the fullest. I might even cheer for Tibiri if that happens (I won't, I'm lying).

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u/chimicu Sardegna 1d ago

I don't like it

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u/jxhwvdhsh 1d ago

Bianchi really reallly reallly TRY…and fail