Pinarello unleashes lighter and sleeker new Bolide time trial bike

Team Sky's new time trial bike for 2016

Pinarello Bolide time trial bike

The eagle-eyed among you might have spotted that Mikel Landa wasn't riding the same Pinarello Bolide as his Team Sky teammates in stage nine of the Giro d'Italia, with the Spaniard on board an updated version of the time trial bike.

From afar, the new Pinarello Bolide looks similar to the old model, but get up close and there are a number of changes that have been made to create what Pinarello refers to as the "benchmark" of time trial bikes.

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