Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

There are plenty of other options if you don't like Shimano.

Doesn't strike me as too bonkers. CK hubs exist at a similar price, so do others. Market - albeit small in number - exists for this kind of thing. The self congratulatory nature grates a bit but for certain MTB circles I suspect this would be slightly more fit for purpose than the current design of a Pro4 which do eat bearings. Well, mine did anyway. Given their pricing I doubt they expect to sell too many - reckon it's for the all year round folks who do gnarly stuff on a hardtail all winter.

I'm getting a little tired of Shimanos determination to do everything cup & cone though.

I can't get enough of em. In a Dura-Ace shifter? Oof!

I can fap to that.

Allow me to change both races in a hub -not just cones- and I'm almost there

You have to try pretty hard to do in the cups; you get plenty of warning. Every bad cup I've ever seen was somebody else's fault.

I've seen plenty of trashed cups. Always a shit sandwich, give back a serviced but still crunchy wheel, replace the hub and build it back to great cost or buy a new wheel.
And then there's the preload not set correctly or undoing itself. I'd rather have novatec, thanks

Nah, 6700 hubs will last years and years and years before degrading. For a winter bike, nothing like them ime

Yeah if I'm looking after my own wheels. Joe Bloggs however, can ruin them before the first bearing change

The biggest problem with cup'n'cone is that wheels almost always turn up from the factory with way too much preload for some reason, and for the bike shop to rectify this, they have to spend time doing themselves out of further business which might amount to a whole wheelset.

I always adjusted the hubs on any bike I built, but it was against the boss's wishes. It wasn't a big effort, and it wasn't in any danger of coming undone in a hurry - usually it was just a matter of unwinding a pair of cone wrenches against each other and the locknuts, without loosening the locknuts if I could help it. Often one of the locknuts would move with the cone, and the adjustment would be locked in good and hard. This technique obviously not an option on stupid obsolete freewheel hubs...

We should all just be thankful Paul Brodie isn’t designing and making all of our hubs…
https://youtu.be/FEY4CYp7zco?si=sQUSYdbR3CH8di7_

To be fair, the bike is little more than an exhibit. If I remember right, at the end of the vid, he's mocking its riding position...

I love the way he's almost eyeballing his measurements, such as they are.

I like it JW, but is it comfy?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7eavRnIHyB/?igsh=MTkyYmw3NmExYzYyZg==

Link doesn’t work above but I’m assuming it it is this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8IfKfZovFM/?igsh=MTU2bzc5dTU4OGN4

This one doesn't work either, but it was the one he apparently got dq'd for.

This broken insta link business is a pain in the arse. I got one of mine to sort of work like this - highlighted it and one option in the resulting menu on my phone was open in insta

instagram.com/reel/C7eavRnIH­yB

Ugly AF, seems very cheaty. Dude looks heaps aero on it

Solves yet another problem that doesn't exist.

https://www.startupselfie.net/2024/06/10/vabsrider-split-seat-bicycle-saddle/#:~:text=The%20vabsRider%20bike%20saddle's%20split,screws%20that%20facilitate%20multiple%20adjustments.

if morgan made bicycles

ohh ...... https://morgan-motor.com/new-pashley-mor­gan-range/

Very late follow up, but I love that fashions and prices have changed so much that this both looks like gvfm and on trend.

https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a60412469/cycling-saddle-pain-women-surgery/

And their mud guards are cheap!

Okay, this is fucken brilliant.

https://youtu.be/bLu6H-K4L2Y?si=f82ggfd8L9umnwYY

That is revolutionary
About time e-cycle power regen is a thing

Grin tech are brilliant

A mate of mine works for a company called Vok who make 4 wheeled cargo cycles. They use power regen, apparently the range is massive! I have a feeling other, similar cargo cycles might have a similar feature.

That's actually really clever and surprisingly simplistic. Even I understood it

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/buffalo-utility-s2

Interesting idea for less components in emerging markets.