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What’s it with Instagram posts together with Soudal-QuickStep and Specialised this July? Final week it was Fabio Jakobsen quickly editing his post after stage 4 of the Tour to take away sight of his damaged SL7. Now it is Castelli sparking contemporary rumours of an imminent new SL8 after this genius scribbling out of Remco’s bike at a Vuelta coaching camp within the Veneto…
‘Simply go on Paint and scribble it out, mate, no one will discover…’
We’re assuming the publish has since been deleted, however then once more it might simply have handed the 24 hours it stays on Instagram tales having been from yesterday morning. A better look does not present far more so maybe I should not be so dismissive of the modifying…
No sight of that built-in cockpit with semi-internal cable routing Lorena Wiebes and Jakobsen had been noticed utilizing, nor the deeper headtube, thinner seatpost and seat tube and bulkier backside bracket space that our video guru Jamie speculated we could also be seeing on a new SL8 in some unspecified time in the future in 2023.
Castelli’s Insta tales now simply present pics of the group truck, Bert Van Lerberghe taking a really shut have a look at a chamois pad and Tim Merlier with a ‘subsequent era sprinter go well with’ (no bikes to be seen).
To be honest, a new SL8 is hardly going to interrupt the biking web because it has been anticipated by many for some time. Again within the tech predictions story linked above, we gave it a probability proportion of 85% to occur in 2023. And whereas we’ll admit we thought we might see it pre-Tour, our deep dive into the bike of former world champ Julian Alaphilippe (alloy bars, a traditional saddle and quick stem included) remains to be all based mostly round an SL7 body.
Will we see an SL8 on the World Championships in Glasgow? Or will Remco’s Vuelta defence be the place it breaks cowl?
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