Pinarello launches new flagship Dogma F

New top race bike will be used by Ineos from the Tour de France onwards

- Simon Smythe

Pinarello has unveiled its new flagship race bike, the Dogma F.

The Italian company has bucked the trend by continuing to produce a rim-brake version as well as the disc-brake bike, saying it remains “convinced that each cyclist has the right to choose which brakes to use.”

Pinarello confirmed that Ineos would be riding the new rim-brake bike until at least the end of the 2021 season, although it expected 80 per cent of customer sales of the new Dogma F to come from the disc-brake bike.

Like the F12, the Dogma F uses direct mount rim brakes rather than the single bolt caliper type.

As for its name, the new Dogma had been widely expected to follow the numerical sequence of its predecessors and had already been dubbed ‘F14’. “A Pinarello Dogma is an icon,” says Pinarello’s press release. “It goes beyond a number or superficial classifications.”

However, there’s no shortage of numbers to describe the claimed advancements in weight and aerodynamics.

Frame weight the same but ‘frame kit’ is lighter

Since Pinarello launched the Dogma F8 in 2014, its target frame weight for the size 53 has been 850 grams and this remains the case for the Dogma F. “This is the weight that we consider correct for our standards of quality and rider safety,” says the brand.

“According to our studies and countless field tests, the handling, reliability, and durability of the frame are compromised below this weight.”

The quoted weights of the Dogma F are even slightly above Pinarello’s stated target weight: 865g for the disc version and 860g for the rim version (both size 53).