Bianchi Sprint Force eTap AXS Review

The Bianchi Sprint is designed as an allrounder performance bike, a jack-of-all-trades that you can take to the weekday crit or a weekend road race – and yet will also be comfortable enough to ride on a long sportive or Gran Fondo. In Bianchi’s range, the Sprint sits below the climbing optimised Specialissima and the World Tour proven Oltre. So, it’s pretty much on the same level as the more aerodynamically focused Aria. Frame, Here we have a full carbon construction, with subtle nods towards aerodynamics in the boxy tube shapes – so it should age much more gracefully than some other more highly optimised aero designs, which quickly begin to look quite dated as research progresses and best practice evolves. The disc brake version takes flat mount brake calipers and has hub spacing of 12x100mm / 12x142mm, which are the standards most manufacturers seem to have settled on (for now at least…). The bottom bracket is a press fit, which on a carbon bike I would say is fair enough. Threads can’t be cut directly into carbon, so to get a BSA bottom bracket on a carbon bike, a threaded metal sleeve has to be pressed into the frame. Although it would save home mechanics having to buy some new tools, it’s easier to see why a bike designer would opt to just forgo the sleeve and simply have the bearings pressed into the frame. Media source: BicycleTube (For more information about this topic, Please visit the site) Thank you.