Racing
The Swiss time trialist will debut his new championship TT bike at the Chrono des Nations
October 14, 2022
On Sunday, Stefan Bissegger will race the Chrono des Nations on a new Cannondale SuperSlice decked out in the colours of the European flag.
The Swiss earned his white-and-blue stripes and gold stars this summer at the European championships in Fürstenfeldbruck, where he hurtled around the Bavarian countryside to win the gold medal and right to wear the Euro livery in time trials for the coming year.
At the Chrono des Nations, he will roll down a start ramp for the first time in his champion’s speedsuit. To celebrate the occasion, Cannondale built Stefan a special SuperSlice in Euro colours. Blue and white with gold European stars, it will match the championship kit that Rapha designed for Stefan and his new POC Tempor.
Vision has crafted a special disc wheel with the Euro motif. Otherwise, Stefan’s bike is his stock race-winning set up. He has got a Vision Metron 91 front wheel and is running 26mm Vittoria Corsa Speed tires. He will race 172.5-mm FSA K-Force Light cranks with a power2max power meter to gauge his effort and Wahoo SPEEDPLAY AERO pedals. For the moment, he has mounted a 58-tooth front chainring, but may go bigger depending on the conditions. His 46-tooth inner ring will stay as clean as a whistle during the fast, rolling French time trial. Stefan will crank out the watts from his favourite Prologo TT Zero saddle. His carbon-fibre Vision TT bars were crafted specially for him after hours of testing in the wind tunnel.
It’s a bike made to go very fast. Stefan will be a white-and-blue blur this Sunday at the Chrono des Nations.
Check out the full-specs for his European champion’s Cannondale SuperSlice TT bike.
Stefan Bissegger’s European Champion’s Cannondale SuperSlice
Frameset
Cannondale SuperSlice
Saddle
Prologo Zero TT
Cockpit
Custom-made Vision carbon-fibre TT bars
Crankset
FSA K-Force Light with power2max power meter
Drivetrain
Shimano DURA-ACE Di2
Brakes
Shimano DURA-ACE
Wheels
Vision Metron TFW + Vision Metron 91
Tires
26mm Vittoria Corsa Speed
Pedals
Wahoo SPEEDPLAY AERO
When Stefan Bissegger was ten, he signed up for a bike race in his home village in Switzerland. He just didn’t know that he needed a racing bike. The organizer, an old pro, called him and said he could borrow one. He is still Stefan’s coach.
Stefan had fun at the race. Soon he was dreaming of winning classics like Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders. He was good at time-trials and long solos and wanted to become the kind of racer who could ride away from all of his rivals on the Oude Kwaremont.
After a stellar few years in the juniors, Stefan came to our team in 2020. He had a breakthrough season in 2021, with time-trial victories at Paris-Nice and the Benelux Tour and an outstanding solo stage win at his home race: the Tour de Suisse. To cap it all off, he participated in his first Olympics on the track with the Swiss team-pursuit squad.
He will only get faster, especially at time trialing. If Stefan wasn’t a racer, he would be a bike mechanic. He likes tinkering with the set-up of his SuperSlice and testing his position until it is as aero as possible.
This year, he is dreaming of pulling on the yellow jersey after the opening TT at the Tour de France.