Bikes of Kona 2024: Kristian Blummenfelt’s Cadex
FRAME – CADEX Tri
Fit Coordinates:
• Pad Stack: 650mm
• Pad Reach (back of pad): 560mm
• Bar Angulation: ~3 deg
• Saddle Height: 727mm
• Saddle Offset: +40mm
Let’s start with the most interesting part of this bike—the front-end modifications, which have become more common. Athletes are adopting longer positions, achieving similar back angles but using reach instead of drop. To accomplish this, they’re taking matters into their own hands and creating various contraptions to extend their bars, which is exactly what Kristian has done with his Drag2Zero .66 cockpit.
Sram Red Groupset: 54/41 front chainring, 10-30 rear cassette, 165 crank arms, Quarq power meter, CeramicSpeed optimized chain and bottom bracket, Shimano pedals.
Hydration/Nutrition: Kristian uses a 3D printed BTA bottle holder by Drag2Zero with an XLab Gorilla cage while also taking full advantage of the Cadex internal fluid storage located inside the frame.
Saddle: Wove V8 with an XLAB Gorilla cage attached to the integrated bottle holder where he uses the bottle retention loop to ensure there are no accidental bottle launches. There is also hole that was drilled into the top of the saddle that might be for bolt access or maybe even a drain? Kristian wasn’t on hand for comment.
Wheels & Tires: Cadex Aero 4-Spoke wheels and Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tire in a 25mm width setup tubeless
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If these stack and reach numbers are correct these are hardly the wild, radical and ‘innovative’ long fits we’ve been hearing about…
Does have a positive saddle offset of 40mm to the tip. But cant see him sitting near the tip with it that far forward. So real word reach will be longer than these values show.
Cool Bike.
It’s weird to me that they would set up this photo shoot and not even both to wipe the bike off.
I also thought that… :). The boys just eat,sleep, train and usually WIN… they do not clean
Yep… That’s why we took the measurements. And yes they are correct.
This is a working weapon; not art.
That hole in the saddle is neccessary to access the head of the bolt, which is an allen key nr4, to tighten that bolt that gives the angle option. We needed to drill these in some saddles to have access to that bolt when the saddle has a ‘closed’ upper.
Jeroen
No pics on custom plate used to extend aero bars forward. Just blurry.
It didn’t noticed it before but my eye just caught it now. The 4-spokes he uses have a different carbon look then the 4-spokes with the checkerboard pattern that we can buy from Cadex.
I wonder if these wheels are exactly the same as the ‘other’ 4-spoke wheels.
Maybe they have a hooked version which would make sense with the 25 mm tires.
In the pictures of Gustav’s bike you can see the specific difference between the rear wheel and the front wheel.
Jeroen