9 TECH TRENDS FOR 2022
1 The slow death of the rim brake
When Pinarello’s new Dogma F was launched in 2021, perhaps for the first time ever there was general surprise that there were both disc and rim versions.
With the demise of the rim brake continuing in all quarters, both consumers and industry expected the new team bike to be disc only, in line with Ineos Grenadiers gradually migrating to discs – even in Paris-Roubaix, as we saw.
Fausto Pinarello says he likes to give riders the choice, but Pinarello’s own figures reveal that it expects 80 per cent of sales of the new Dogma F to be the disc-brake version and it seems likely that this will be the last rim-braking Dogma.
Even Giant, the world’s biggest bicycle company, only offers the top
