It looks amazing, personally i am a big fan of Felt bikes anyway having owned one for years, i guess i'll have to wait for my boat to come in for that one though.
I dont want to hate on the thing unnecessarily, but i just cant understand the thought process behind the design of this bike and why you would buy this over something else on the market or even the older felt model. It has awful looking geometry, the front end looks cheap and hard to adjust plus heavy, not aero and expensive to change. there is no rear hydration system, the bottle cage mounts dont looks spaced enough due to lack of room in the centre triangle so i assume 1 bottle only. the "integrated frame bottle" doesnt look useable in the slightest, hence Ryf has taped over it and stuck on an xlab bottle from 2005. I just cant understand anything about this bike. I imagine it will be priced at over $10,000. If i ever see someone with one in transition I will have to ask them what on earth they were thinking buying it.
Savage looking bike in more ways than one! Great weight really for its heavy looking design!! But all credit has to go to Mark for a great bike review….. GCN Tech has trained you well 🤔😂
Proud owner since 2018 of the IA before this one and after Daniela and Braden Curries performances at the World Champs in St George May 7 I know what my next model will be. 🥰
Really odd bike... Firstly the disc wheel is a Roval 321... Dt Swiss latest resource for disc wheels with stickers on. Also, the basebar/extensions solution seems quite a mess... considering what Cervelo's P5 or Canyon's Speedmax had come up with... Weird how the saddle post is just taken from the old model. And can't imagine two standard bottles in the seat/downtube mounts together with such space... Just my opinion though
Seems to me that what messes it up is that Ryf seems to be sponsored by Xlab and they jammed that bottle into the cockpit. Also I don’t like that the Di2 cables are exposed.
Base bar brake level DI2 shifters are perfect for climbing, when you are out of aero and on the ‘hoods’. Ideal setup for North America courses like Oceanside, Lake Placid & Mt. Tremblant.
Ive been riding Felts for 20 years and I loved the DA when it came out, lusted after the IA when it first came out, this one? Not so sure. Im sure there is a method to their madness but its lets say... interesting....
@@CalebChapman12 yeah thought the same. But I can only assume it’s a „never change a running system“ attitude here. She is used to the feeling of the higher weight on the front of the bike and feels comfortable with it. But still, I do also think it is super odd.
@@richardgibbs4677 think he meant there wasnt a computer, which may have been removed at the time of the shoot, but definitely no power meter even installed
Sometimes athletes may ride with a power meter to record data for post race analysis even if they don't set up a bike computer on their bars to watch the numbers as they ride
i thing that really infuriates me abt these videos, DON'T simply tell us abt the adjustability of the bike & components, ACTUALLY show / demonstrate to us how its done. Else watt u say is just a lot of hot air!
that thing is fugly! most of these bikes look like F1 cars, but that thing looks so weird. cool integration i guess but not something id ever want to own