Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

It will sell like hot cakes if he can get DuraAce Di2 to play nicely with a 40T sprocket, and replicate the 90s purple anodising 💜👌

waves

drools

Have we had this yet?

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/smart-tire-company-metl/

Have we had this yet?

Yes, https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15897770/incontext et seq

Ah, cheers, skipped that.

Stupid idea, then.

The end to all geometry-chat
in the gravel thread ?

Edit: sorry for useless format

ceramicspeed.com/en/driven/

Despite the obvious issues from both engineering and marketing perspectives, there is still one born every minute and they've raised over $500k to further delay abandonment of the whole stupid idea
https://www.seedinvest.com/driven/seed

Remarkable.
The way the page is set-up it's like a cross between crowd funding and proper business investment, like the worst of both worlds.....
If it were "slip us $1k and you get a party bag with massive jockey wheels & a bottle of lube and perhaps one day you'll get dibs on a pointless biek" that would be one thing, but it's more like "we pocket your cash in return for a share of our probably non-existant business depending on how many future funding rounds we dilute your stake by"

like a cross between crowd funding and proper business investment, like the worst of both worlds

Or, to put it in a way familiar to users here, exactly the same format as LFGSSers were asked to invest in microcosm 🤣

All share offers are, and always have been, crowd-funding, it's just that in the olden days the crowd was very small and people didn't use the term.

Since we're on drivetrains:

https://bikepacking.com/news/shimano-linkglide/

Well that's going to annoy me in a year or so.

300% longer lifespan than GRX pulley wheels?

Fineprint:

*Excludes use in @giofox definition of gravel, shitfromabutt scenarios and on any bike upon which a mechanic that has previous installed jockey wheels the wrong way has worked.

*Excludes use in @giofox definition of gravel, shitfromabutt scenarios and on any bike upon which a mechanic that has previous installed jockey wheels the wrong way has worked.

As I was watching the video, I thought about the poor chain wearing twice as fast due to the wider teeth pushing sfab grinding paste through each link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djM8JC-2b98

Can't help but admire the amount of time and energy he's put into it.

Did 'utfs' but founf nothing for Metl bike tyre.

Search for nitinol found it

Or just look further up this page

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/is-ford-about-to-change-derailleurs-forever/

Is there a particular reason why new US patent illustrations look as though they were drawn in 1886?

and why are they planning to attach it to the frame with a brass window latch with slotted screws?

My take is that they need to be precise enough to get the actual patent while leaving out as much info as possible so it's harder to copy

These patent illustrations sure are rubbish