Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

meet-the-superstrata

It had a review in Escape in April: a dangerous disaster and a cautionary tale, made extra-disastrous by Covid component delays. https://escapecollective.com/the-superstrata-is-not-a-good-bike/

Mental wheels tho

Referring to the dude upthread in the Philippines https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17069676/ They're here. https://bike-ahead-composites.de/products/wheels/biturbo-aero.html And only 1450 grams per pair.

Here they are on a Scott Foil .

Full build here https://escapecollective.com/dangerholm-goes-road-a-look-at-the-scott-foil-liquid/

And only 1450 grams per pair.

Is that good for spoks? For 4 grand there's a lot of wheels out there that will be lighter.

Is that good for spoks?

It's largely irrelevant, since the difference between 1kg and 2kg for a pair of wheel can easily be swamped by aero differences, but it would be lighter than Hed3, Aerospoke or Corima if true, although Xentis claim 1390g a pair for their High-X so not the lightest

What a dork

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It's about average for this style of very-few-fat-spokes wheels. Normal wheels can be 1kg per pair for similar money. But normal wheels are less aerodynamic.

Wheels with less than 12 spokes or spokes thicker than 10mm are not allowed by the UCI in road races. These are for the track or for recreational/urban cyclists who like the look.

Two-for-one of butchery in this listing

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Has @HoKe ordered one of these yet?

Thanks for the ref! A truly gobsmacking read

Love it

It really makes you want to set up your own bike company!

Goota love Look, they really do not scare about conventional design at all.

+1, thanks Nick

Very few words for this.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266102900285

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I have many words for that: tacky branding, shite wheels, brakes that won't stop you. £7.5K? Sme total prick of a 'collector' will probably buy it....

On the plus side, I have always loved those seatpins.

I can imagine a collector wanting it if he had a museum called The Worst Taste In The World.

Fitting '80s Delta brakes and all that other shite "to create the best looking bike that can be achieved".....it's insanity. This is the original spec:

This is the original spec

You can see why somebody would want to make changes to that, it's a reasonably inoffensive Colnago, which would never do.

Truly hilarious. Wonder how long it'll take to sell...?

Also that's the poxiest-looking Colnago frame I've ever looked at, whole rear triangle looks like arse. Was that Ferrari's fault somehow?

£3599

Poxiest looking Colnago frame? That's a very high bar, remember the C35....

The original spec is comparatively pleasant, simply add the rest of the carbon 10 speed set and delete the red alleged highlights.

Shirley the saddle needs a cutout to maximise the effectiveness of the exhausts?!

I reckon Integralters are the trilby hats of the cycling world. Owner convinced they look amazing, everyone else thinks they look like utter fucking dug shite. Especially with the pin up stickers.

But the pin-ups are a sincere tribute to Cipo's (wife-beating) achievements. Andrew Tate-approved.