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WyndyMilla Reynolds Racing Team’s WyndyMilla Foo Fighter

Check out the aero road bike the team will be on this year

This is the WyndyMilla Foo Fighter aero road bike that’ll be ridden by the UK-based WyndyMilla Reynolds Racing Team this year (formerly MG Maxifuel).

The team will be supporting three tiers of the sport, with a seven female rider line up supported by six males and the newly introduced Youth Development squad of three riders.

The riders will race on custom-built WyndyMilla carbon framesets, the Foo Fighter being the aero option. Like other WyndyMilla frames, it is handmade just outside Venice, Italy, and painted in Surrey by Ooey Custom.

The most distinctive feature of the frame, paintwork aside, is probably the rear end, the offset seatstays extending backwards horizontally before heading down to the dropouts. Wyndymilla reckons that although the frame is stiff, that back end adds to the level of comfort.

The split-legged fork, designed to reduce drag, is closely related to the 4ZA Fast fork used on the RidleyNoah Fast. Ridley don’t own exclusive rights to the basic design so this is a version that’s been modified to fit the WyndyMilla frame. The integrated V-style front brake sits behind the fork legs where it is shielded from the wind, and there’s enough clearance in there for the wider wheels/tyres that many racers are now using.

Although you can’t see it, the rear brake is a Shimano Dura-Ace direct mount one positioned behind the bottom bracket. WyndyMilla say that the aerodynamic benefit of siting it here is negligible but they prefer the extra stiffness of having the brake in this position.

A lot of the WyndyMilla riders will be racing on the Massive Attack, which is their wide-tubed lightweight model, with a Columbus Grammy monocoque carbon fork. The frame is claimed to weigh under 900g.

WyndyMilla run Reynolds wheels. As you can see in the main pic, this is a mixed set – an Aero 46 up front and an Aero 58 at the rear – although they’ll mostly be using Attack (29mm deep), Assault (41mm deep) and Strike (62mm deep) carbon clinchers.

The groupsets are Shimano 9000 11-speed with Rotor chainrings, the saddles come from Fizik, Lazer provide the helmets and eyewear, and the shoes come from Bont.

If you want a Foo Fighter for yourself, you can have it made with any bottom bracket standard, for direct mount or standard calliper brakes, and with either a normal or an integrated seatpost. They’re not built as monocoques so WyndyMilla can easily offer these different options. They can offer direct mount brakes on the Massive Attack for the same reason. You get a lifetime warranty on the frames (excluding crash damage).

Go for a stock size and a full-carbon Foo Fighter frame, fork and headset will set you back £2,650. Opt for a custom size and you’re looking at £2,950. If you want the split-legged fork, that’s a £300 upgrade (it retails at £750 if bought separately).

The team’s focus will very much be on the Women’s Tour Series, as well as National Series Road events. The male team will focus on a strong Nat-B race calendar, selected Nat-A events and guest spots at the Tour Series. The Youth arm will be racing in the UK across all disciplines of the sport.

For more info go to www.wyndymilla.com.

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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arrieredupeleton | 10 years ago
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Kudos to 'Windy Miller' for bringing something different to the UK racing scene and particularly for their support for youth and womens cycling. However....

Most people with £3k to drop on a frame aren't going to get off on the kooky spelling, font, colour or names (albeit Foo Fighter is a great name but I'm not their target customer). They're more likely to look at Ritte, Pearson and the like or even handbuilt.

Having said all that, it'll be fun watching one of these blasting by the Rapha boys and their more 'considered' styling.

Reminds me of one of these:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Ford-Escort-XR3i-Cabriolet-Pink-White-Roof-/00/s/...$T2eC16Z,!zYFIcEWRhP0BSMhlog15w~~60_35.JPG

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chadders | 10 years ago
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Riding a bright pink bike is like a golfer wearing pastel coloured pants, you better be good or everyone thinks your a tw*t.

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belgravedave | 10 years ago
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Is the frame made by Sarto, looks very similar to the Planet X Spitfire?

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chokofingrz | 10 years ago
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Thought it was April 1st for a moment...

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beej.a | 10 years ago
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Not sure if I can take the "WyndyMilla" logo seriously.

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Cooks | 10 years ago
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Just look at his smile. The more you look at it, the more it drains off his face...

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Chris | 10 years ago
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Bike looks great in those colours, but then add the people and you find that there really is such a thing as too much pink.
Should have gone for black shorts, maybe with a pinky trim.
If in doubt, think Rule #14

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Guyz2010 | 10 years ago
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Loving the bike n colour but no I wouldn't ride it in that shade or plain black either.

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georgeince | 10 years ago
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been on road.cc for years now and finally seeing WM on the home page :') been riding my Massive Attack for over a year or so now and love it to bits, custom carbon and pink paint job and all! YEAH I WEAR THE PINK!!!  19

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Quince | 10 years ago
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Instead of "Allez!", they should yell "KA-BLAMO!!!" at their riders. It seems more fitting, somehow.

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eddie11 | 10 years ago
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Saw the massive attacks in last years tour series. Great name, big chunky frame with bonkers colours and fonts. They were the best bikes by a mile.

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allez neg | 10 years ago
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Bonkers! Love it.

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themartincox | 10 years ago
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It looks like VecchioJo font off of the 90's!

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jova54 | 10 years ago
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If it's got Foo Fighter on it, it can be any colour it likes

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vgregster | 10 years ago
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Looks awesome- all the best guys!

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movingtarget | 10 years ago
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With those colors I thought for sure they were sponsored by Pepto-Bismol  4

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SuperG | 10 years ago
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Don't mind the colour, but terrible font for 'WyndyMilla'....trying a bit to hard to be very British.

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festival | 10 years ago
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What a sh!t colour

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timb27 replied to festival | 10 years ago
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Yes, imagine using pink for cycling. Who on earth would ever use pink.... oh.

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festival replied to timb27 | 10 years ago
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XXX

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oozaveared replied to festival | 10 years ago
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festival wrote:

What a sh!t colour

See a doctor!! Soon.

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festival replied to oozaveared | 10 years ago
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xxx

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festival replied to oozaveared | 10 years ago
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