The Ultimate Aerodynamic Motorcycle in the WorldTour Makes a Stunning Debut – Inside Elisa Longo Borghini’s Colnago Y1Rs

The unconventional silhouette of the Colnago Y1Rs caught out within the peloton on the UAE Excursion Girls 2025. Its looping handlebars had been an infinite distinction in opposition to the array of vintage flat aero bars, and naturally, Tiffany Cromwell’s flared gravel bar. The motorcycle was once unmissable. 

The race noticed the quickest level ever in girls’s WorldTour racing recorded on level 2, and it was once UAE Workforce ADQ riders on their Y1Rs’ who had been instrumental in environment the report, an apt baptism for the motorcycle’s first WorldTour time out.

On level 2, teammates Elisa Longo Borghini, Lara Gillespie, and Karlijn Swinkels led the breakaway and stepped at the gasoline from the first actual kilometre, hitting a mean of 48.407 km/h. 

However the Y1R’s good fortune went additional. Elisa Longo Borghini gained the Basic Classification, whilst teammate Silvio Persico was once additionally at the GC podium. The flat roads of the UAE had been the easiest first time out for the radical-looking motorcycle. 

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Introduced in December ultimate yr, the Colnago Y1Rs despatched ripples in the course of the trade because the motorcycle ditched the vintage primary triangle form, in favour of an abnormal pentagon. 

Colnago stated it utterly delicate its CFD modelling to create what it calls ‘probably the most aerodynamic UCI-compliant street motorcycle within the International Excursion’. 

That is the competitive velocity device of the UAE Excursion Girls 2025 winner Elisa Longo Borghini.

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Longo Borghini’s built-in cockpit with the CC.Y1 V-shaped handlebar does not glance as radical from above, however its V form slopes up and ahead from the fork crown like a chicken’s wing form. Colnago calls this the Wynd form.  

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The downtube options an built-in bottle cage, which goes the form of the body and may be stated to scale back the drag led to through the bottles. 

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UAE Workforce ADQ is a Shimano-sponsored crew, therefore the Dura-Ace R9100 12-speed crankset, with 54/40 enamel chainset, a not unusual WorldTour racing setup. 

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Peeking out from below the bar tape are Shimano’s dash shifters that permit Longo Borghini to shift within the drops. 

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The Enve SES 4.5 wheels be offering a light-weight and tubeless setup with deep phase rims and are made for velocity and the graceful asphalt of the UAE.

They’ve a 25mm interior rim width and a 32mm exterior width optimised to be used with wider tyres. Longo Borghini was once working the Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT, the logo’s quickest street motorcycle tyre. 

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The pronounced kink is fairly dramatic amidst the seatpost which is about again from the staggered seat tube. Colnago claims that provides vertical compliance for a extra relaxed experience, regardless of the aero tube shapes.

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The seat tube may be very brief which is helping defend the rear wheel from the wind, very important when taking at the crosswinds of the UAE. 

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Longo Borghini rides the Fi’zi:ok Vento Antares 00 saddle, which has a complete carbon shell and rails and injected EVA-padding. Fi’zi:ok is a brand new sponsor for the crew this yr.