Cycling Australia reveals new track bike for Tokyo Olympics

Cycling Australia has officially revealed the bike that its track riders will compete on at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Argon 18’s new 2020 Electron Pro is the result of more than two years of research and development in a collaboration that involved Cycling Australia, Argon 18, Zipp, Monash University and Adelaide University.

Much of the development process was focused on reducing the bike’s frontal profile. The result is a new pursuit fork design that brings the fork legs as close to the disc wheel as possible, reportedly reducing fork drag by 30% compared to the bike’s previous iteration. This is notable for being the opposite approach to that taken by Great Britain, Lotus and Hope Technology — that collaboration led to considerably wider front fork spacing, also with the goal of reducing fork drag.

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