Last year, British national champion Connor Swift was presented with a custom painted Genesis Zero SL bike, ahead of the Tour of Britain. Now he’s got a new custom paint job on the disc braked Genesis Zero SL Disc that he’s riding this season as a second option.
Swift is pleased with the new design, saying: “Obviously I could have gone for the same design as my original, however having Rob at Colourburn Studios remake the original wouldn't be as fun... you can let him loose and come up with a fresh design that is just as cool and amazing as the first time round.
“Having both of the custom bikes side-by-side will be mega and I love both designs! Huge thanks to Rob and everyone at Madison.”
Front half of the frame gets a low key stippled effect as well as the date of Swift's victory in the national championship road race
(Image credit: Luke Webber)
The new bike continues the red, white and blue theme, but with the front part of the frame finished in a more muted stippled effect, rather than the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock look of the rim brake bike.
Paintwork on the rear triangle is bolder than on the rest of the frame
(Image credit: Luke Webber)
At the rear, the seat tube, seatstays and chainstays get a bolder, more pronounced colourway, with the red white and blue supplemented by flashes of silver. The effect is replicated on the bottom of the fork legs too. Swift still gets his name on the side of the top tube and a Yorkshire rose on the down tube, as well as '01.07.2018', the date of his National Championships victory, on the top tube.
Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.
He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.
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