Pro bike: Maggie Coles-Lyster’s Pinarello Dogma F

With the departure of Israel-Premier Tech and their Factor bikes, Roland has made the switch to Pinarello bikes for the 2024 season, a move that was only officially announced nearly a full month into the season.

It’s the first time Pinarello has been present in the Women's WorldTour peloton, along with its now iconic Dogma bike. The Dogma is instantly recognisable in the men’s WorldTour peloton, with its reputation spurred on by the success of Ineos Grenadiers over the last 14 years, and the Italian brand will hope that Roland can replicate some of that success in the women’s peloton too.

We got our hands on Maggie Coles-Lyster's Pinarello Dogma F at the recent Women’s UAE Tour to get a closer look at the design and the Canadian’s build for 2024.

• Read more: 2024 Women’s WorldTour bikes, wheels and groupsets: A complete guide

Pinarello Dogma F: Trademark tube shapes

Ever since its inception, the Dogma has always cut a slightly different look to other bikes in the pro peloton. This has mainly been achieved by some of its curved tube profiles, something that has been dampened down over the last decade, but not enough for the latest Dogma to lose its defining appearance.

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The Pinarello Dogma's curved fork

The latest version, the Dogma F, was released in 2022 and it retains the kinked forks and top tube, while the seatstays also have a noticeable curve. Using these slightly different tube profiles hasn’t done the bike any harm over the years and the current Dogma F is already a proven winner.

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Roland has settled on a red and black colourway for 2024

Beyond the overall design of the bike, Roland has opted for a red and black striped colourway for 2024. It’s a fairly simple design in the context of the women’s WorldTour peloton, where teams routinely trump the men’s peloton with their innovative and creative colourways.

• Read more: Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Dogma F pro bike

Shimano with a twist

Like most teams at WorldTour level, Roland uses Shimano’s Dura-Ace groupset, although it’s added a slight twist to the common recipe, swapping in a FSA Powerbox crankset for the standard Shimano version.

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The crankset had a Power2Max power meter

Coles-Lyster opted for a 52/36t set-up and the crankset had a Power2Max power meter built in. We didn’t get confirmation of the cassette size but it looked like a 11-34t to us, giving the Canadian an easiest 36/34t gear which will have been enough to spin up the long climbs at the UAE Tour.

Tri saddle and Look pedals

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Coles-Lyster's tri saddle

Coles-Lyster diverged from the norm by opting for a tri rather than a regular road saddle in the form of the PSN 4.0 from a lesser-known brand named ISM. This type of saddle, with a cut out that extends from the middle to the nose of the saddle, is more commonly used for time trialling.

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The non-power meter Look Keo pedals

Elsewhere, the Canadian had Look Keo Blade pedals, although not the new power meter version that the brand recently unveiled.

The cockpit came from Pinarello in the form of the Most Talon, while the bike was also paired with Vision Metron wheels and Pirelli’s P Zero race tyres.

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