Sunday was not an excellent day for Mary Moncorge. A instructor and former enduro and e-MTB racer, she set the Trans V as her bike problem for 2020. The weekend began on a excessive be aware with victory within the prologue on Saturday. Sunday morning began properly, however as she went into the primary climb one thing felt unsuitable, her legs have been weak and he or she simply could not maintain the tempo she knew she may in coaching. After she handed the second time verify and commenced to move into the lengthy, brutal climb to Col de Porte she began to run a fever and was pressured to desert earlier than she reached the village of Loda on the decrease slopes of the mountain (she noticed a physician Monday morning and is at the moment ready for her COVID take a look at outcomes)

DT Swiss’ up to date carbon XRC 1200s are her alternative of wheels – these are their XC race bundle, with a 30mm inside width and the ultra-fancy ceramic-bearinged hubs. They’re shod with Schwalbe’s Magic Mary and Rock Razor tyres, each in 2.35 in Snakeskin casing. That is an outdated tyre that’s not in manufacturing – Schwalbe now solely make these tyres of their heavier Tremendous Path casing, however for a race like this she discovered herself wanting extra tread than an XC tyre may supply. On the rear Mary runs an Effetto Mariposa Tyre Defender rim strip for further safety.

Mary runs XT two-piston brakes, however boosts the rear rotor as much as 180mm as they deal with warmth construct up higher and supply barely extra exact management than the 160mm rotors most manufacturers spec on their bikes – her Agonist is designed to run a 140mm rear rotor so she needed to supply a 40mm adapter (most DH adapters are 43mm). Her drivetrain is an virtually fully XT affair, with a 10-51t cassette and a 28t ring. Due to her brief legs, she went for 165mm cranks with the non-obligatory narrower Q-factor that she feels assist her put the ability down extra successfully. The 2 exceptions to XT are the cassette as XTR is a big weight saving over XT and the pedals as a result of Shimano despatched her XTR as an alternative of XT and the one factor to do in that scenario is say “thanks.”

The cockpit is a Shimano Tharsis carbon bar in 20mm rise, reduce to 760mm and paired to a 40mm Koryak stem. On the left-hand aspect of the bar is her dropper distant and above a twin DT Swiss 3 place distant for each the fork and shock. A set of Ergons GD1 grips in slim with manufacturing facility rubber end off her cockpit as she finds them to be good within the moist with out gloves.

Lastly all of the storage – with instruments and tube on the toptube, a pump on the bottle cage and Effetto Mariposa tyre plugs mounted within the crank.