The Criterium du Dauphine is always a great place to find new bikes. Last year, several prototypes were on display from the likes of Ridley and BMC. This year we have already seen a new Willier in the week before the Tour de France's major tune-up and a still uncertain new trek model, the Canyon Air Road of the Dauphine itself. 

Now it is the turn of the Pinarello and Ineos Grenadiers tease the new model, which bears the Dogma F brand, suggesting that it is such a replacement as a simple like.

Ineos-Grenadiers, and longtime sponsor Pinarello, have long chosen a single bike strategy. While other teams have spent several years between exercise bikes and lightweight bikes depending on the terrain, the British team simply uses the current doctrine F for everything and there is no reason to doubt that this new bike is not a new doctrine, and will also be used by the team for everything to come. 

As with so many new bikes these days, the real meat and potatoes of the changes are made in the front-up, where the leading edge fills (relatively) clean air. The first thing you notice about this new bike is that the head tube is increasing in depth, which could hit the edge of UCI regulation. This material was added behind the head tube instead of adding a bulbous nose in front of the steerer, as specialized in the Tarmac SL8. 

Perhaps the rest of the frame has a moderate diet to counteract the added mass to the front. There's no pencil-like chainstay like the new Tarmac, and it's not as noticeable as some other new models we've seen. Simply put, everything is a little small. The down tube still holds the shelf, steps down for the bottle cage, and the seat stay is narrowed, but it is still a case of wholesale change rather than repetitive design very clearly. 

Although the exercise bike has a reputation for everything being quite similar, especially thanks to its heavy use of CFD modeling and wind tunnel testing, the Pinarello bike has always had a distinctive Grabry fork and seat stay that has been toned down since the days of Chris Froome and Team Sky. The essence of Glabry remains on both the fork and the seat stay. 

When I attended the launch of Pinarello F last year, I was struck by the commitment the brand has to aesthetics as well as performance, and I suspect the waves remain for any real performance improvement rather than maintaining the correct visual package. You can do it.

More shots of Dogma will be featured in our upcoming, member-only gallery from Dauphine, so make sure you have already subscribed so you don't miss all the juicy shots.