Million dollar bike

1 million quid and you don't get lights !?

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=83953

yeh i was thinking of getting one

Singlespeed apparently.

change my rear cog on my biatch and il wipe the floor with that bike!

allready ordered one.... would make a great polo bike :|

A bad workman blames his tools.

guy needs to htfu

slack chain!

He'll be beaten by someone riding a BT. Aussie engineering rules.

bush mechanics?

a Million? who engineered this bike, Graham Drummond?

Saw it chained up outside the George last night. Pub bike.

No gears and no brakes, it's fucking crazy.

heEEeEEey!! you wanna shmoke and a pancake!? no ordinary pershon cood royde eet!! eets sho shteef!

you could buy a car for that.

Technically $1m is £508 879.95 at today's exchange rate....

just as Steve Austin would be the £3 053 279.73 man. [/pedantry]

:-P

anyway, Chris Boardmans Lotus looked far more wicked than that.

It's all part of the psych games preceding the Olympics; CB did those interviews about how only three people in the world know what the final spec of British Olympic bike and kit will be. Everything new except the pedals shoes cogs and chains.

No pressure Theo...

they dug up Brunel for this one.

with these bikes i always want to say "look at the fucking bars and stem for fucks sake".

It's all part of the psych games preceding the Olympics; CB did those interviews about how only three people in the world know what the final spec of British Olympic bike and kit will be. Everything new except the pedals shoes cogs and chains.

yeah i seen that, it was either in the guardian or the telegraph, making out like they were building a nasa space rocket or something. He actually said that most of the components had already been developed and used in races already, 'under the radar', just so that if the olympic judges had a problem with something, they could state that it had already been approved before. i dont think there's going to be anything groundbreaking, just lots of little changes all round.

i suppose the finals are decided sometimes by 1/1000's of a second but come on new everything surely just smoother rolling bearing in wheels and bottom bracket would suffice ? put and extra 0.1 bar in the tyres surely not too much more can be whittled off that all black british bike they used in the worlds in manchester there wasn't a huge amount of spare flab on that bike ? what will they remove next saddle / downtubes ?

Aerodynamics are more important than weight. I'm sure they are just talking about tweaking the shape of the frame to be more aero or adjust it to get the rider more aero. Everything is carbon so it's a big shaping, tunnel testing, measuring exercise all without adding any flex or breaking any rules.

This dude needs a Charge Plug!

Imagine how quick you'd go on Theo's bike, HB