10 TECH TRIUMPHS OF THE 2010S
PINARELLO DOGMA
The 2014 Tour de France represented the end of passione and the beginning of science.
The marginal gains-era was already under way by the time Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France in 2012, but the Brit, using the curvy Pinarello Dogma 65.1, appeared to have disregarded it and instead relied on the classic champion’s blend of personality, panache and passion.
Although Chris Froome won on the Dogma 65.1 in 2013, by 2014 Team Sky had all but commandeered its Italian bike sponsor in order to develop a world-beating new machine that fitted with its ethos. It brought in Jaguar, already the team car supplier, to provide top aerodynamicists, state-of-the-art CFD software, and a full-scale wind tunnel.
The resulting Dogma F8 — F for ‘faster’ with ‘8’ denoting the eighth version of the Dogma — was the first bike in the modern peloton to integrate the superlative aerodynamic performance that the sprinters demanded, with the
