2021 bikes

No that's clearly a BMC Canyon

Get it, they all look the fucking same ahhaha

Haha, I'm interested to see what the 2021 Canyons are like... Aeroad/Reacto/Venge and Ultimate/Tarmac/Teammachine.

2021 bikes are boring, even if they're ridden by hipsters

strip them back and they all look the same.

This is one of the things I like about bikes.

Does it say LIVESTONG on the top tube?

they even created an AR app to show it off

T.Rex on the loose next week

This was one of my problem when I was looking for a new road bike.

Aside from the S5 everything else looks the same these days, hence why I decided to go vintage direction instead.

All of the bikes have seemed to go up in value a lot too e.g. from 2020-2021 the Cannondale SS HM Ultegra £4,000 - £4,300.

I do everything on my Isen, even though a 'fast/aero' bike would suit my riding a lot more.

My prediction for 2021 or after is that "boutique" touring brands will resurrect butterfly touring bars. They're basically the original ultra-flared dropbar/alt-bar hybrid.

Zonks

What do you mean boring? I don't understand this at all.

That's my singlespeed DH hardtail sorted!

there are hills in Norfolk ?!

Every few decades I leave Norfolk, so I can assume a new identity

Just watched a video about the Tarmac SL7. Cannot afford but interesting to see threaded BB. Is this the general direction other racing bikes are going, too? I do hope so. And was all that stuff about press fit BBs being more stiff and enabling better power transfer nonsense, or has the frame design just evolved now they so they can have the power but also the threaded BB? I do not know the science but am interested in the thinking behind it. Awaits knowledge with dunce cap

It's cheaper for them to make a press fit BB so if they say it's coz of mega-gainz then consumers buy in droves and they make more wonga. Trouble is so many consumers have bought bikes with press fit BBs now and discovered they're actually a crock of shit that the secret is out so demand is high for threaded BB frames.

In theory, press fit is a more elegant and effective solution (when working with carbon) and should/does provide stiffness benefits. In reality, it is very difficult to make the tolerances work without issue and it is debateable as to whether anyone actually needs that extra stiffness.

For the home mechanic and tinkerer (or really the consumer generally) the move back to threaded seems to be an entirely positive move.

Press fit bottom brackets allowed Hambini to get an audience

For that reason alone, they're a bad thing!

Bring back BB30

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I enjoy his videos, even though I don't really know what he's talking about. It amazes me how people send him junky stuff to repair and he goes to so much effort to polish a turd, all the while verbally annihilating it. Nice how the manufacturers take notice, too. Hopefully will make them sort the issues out. Never imagined I would need to learn about bearings, but at least now I know not to buy ceramic ones. And when he does the x-ray thing on carbon frames and points out all the places there are holes from the shitty manufacturing <3

Anyway, very happy to see more threaded BBs.

All hail Hambini

All bottom brackets are press fit

I wish he was my big brother, helped me with my homework, then visited school to shout at the teachers to tell them in detail why they are wrong.

Lolz.

Skinny (for aero) headtubes are a back too.