Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

@nick_h.
It maybe doesn't work so well when reading on a mobile, but the text spacing on my screen had me wanting this.

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Works on mobile too

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I pity the fool who pays $3k for it

Had I the money I would. That’s fucking cool

Zunow are extremely high quality!
They had a store in Vancouver with the nicest collection of frames I have ever seen.

worse

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/radical-new-trek-madone-breaks-cover-dauphine-293363

Vast improvement over the current Madone.
I want to see Trek’s claims for it- aero and comfort?

Vertical compliance and lateral stiffness 🤣

aero

NAA(erodynamicist), but surely the big round bidons are more of a drag?

How did you predict that?!

.....and yet miss 'lighter', with 'cheaper to mass produce' in miniscule text.

Bidons have zero effect on aerodynamics, just like cyclists, trufax.

Trek will be so much faster this tdf

http://decathlon-magicbike.com/

the earth is healing

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One-and-a-half crown fork:

https://www.intend-blackline.com/products/ebonite-bandit/

Surprised that's within the UCI's bullshit

Trek is a big company and title sponsor of a team in the highest UCI rank. You do the math(s)

Have the rules changed to accommodate this bike? If not, it was already within the rules, or what, the UCI lets big companies push them around?

Why does the UCI care what companies want? Where's the incentive? They own the playing field.

UCI mainly work in the 2D realm. From a side view, all the tubes will fall within the boxes that the UCI allows for them, or the so-called 'compensation triangles'. The rules did change recently (hence the deluge of new aero bikes) to increase the size of the compensation triangles and allow more aero tubes. The UCI doesn't let big companies push them around, especially since Michael Rogers has been 'innvoation manager'. The bike industry as a whole has an influence at the UCI, represented by the WFSGI.

Where's the incentive?

In the brown envelope, as usual

They own the playing field

A field needs watering. UCI has no money except what it can extract in rents from the teams and race organisers

The UCI doesn't let big companies push them around

That would be a radical change of policy if true, but the evidence points the other way.

this will never catch on

https://youtu.be/v76DaBrqfR0

One step forward two steps back?

To be honest I think that my gripe is mainly with the price and the custom braze on fastening.

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1. price
   
2. custom braze on fastening
   
3. down tube shifters only
   
4. max capacity 30 teeth
   
   

I like the aesthetic though