BMC Timemachine 01 Road Four £6,999 | 8.17kg
BMC claims if you’re looking for the fastest bike ever, then look no further. We took the BMC Timemachine 01 Road Four on an epic 25-hour race to see if this disc-only aero bike could give us the speed to survive.
Love them or hate them, aero bikes are a common sight within most brands’ model line-ups these days, and BMC is no stranger in this category. Since its introduction back in 2012, the original road-going Timemachine was pitched as a purely functional bike, sacrificing comfort and compliance over ultimate speed and wind-cheating abilities. With the 25-hour Redbull Timelaps looming on the calendar for the Cycling Weekly team, you can understand my increased nervousness when the Road Four was made my weapon of choice for the event.
Design
The design brief for this bike was to build on the existing Timemachine platform and extract as much speed from aerodynamic advantage,
