Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

This is my best guess, on a moving train with crappy editing tools.

The BB-saddle distance is short, but pedal in lowest position-saddle distance even more so as they look like 120mm cranks.

I think that wheel size/crank length combination is a unicycling thing, and this would feel like riding one too.

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Sure this was posted a while ago before, with the same criticisms and some people said it would be ridiculous around corners.

If it's direct drive and a 36" wheel then it's <33 gear inches

Surely if it's 36" wheel direct drive, then the gear is exactly 36" 😀

Depends on tyre size right. I thought they'd be 35-40mm but upon closer inspection they're 2.25" which more like 36".

I confused small and far away I suppose

Want.

Lotus is back in the bike making game with Team GB:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/article/20191028-gb-cyclingteam-news-Best-of-British-join-forces-with-British-Cycling-for-Olympic-Track-Bike-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAC_iiX3-yY

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14965130/

Better view of the bike here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xOsO57zis

Possibly the prettiest aero-branded product I've seen to date..
3D-printed titanium track cranks by Argon 18 for the Australian track team.

by Argon 18

I think by Bastion, for Argon 18
See also https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14980597/incontext/

True..
Very impressive still.

If I saw someone riding this down the street they would be

There were some quite crap looking 3D printed cranks on display at formnext this week - I'm not 100% clear on the benefit, I think they're more interested in modelling a process, testing a model and then fabricating a demonstrator to see how close it performs to the digital model - here's the background story https://www.gknpm.com/en/our-businesses/gkn-additive/am-in-action/revealing-the-simulation-driven-approach-behind-a-3d-printed-bicycle-crank/

I'm surprised we're not seing more generative design in printed bike parts - the apworks light rider e-bike is an interesting example.
https://www.altair.com/resource/detail/7423

Can definitely chalk this one up as for worse.

https://youtu.be/WFbVx6cd0Ak

https://www.instagram.com/p/B39sEwilFgT/?igshid=485btcow46ui

I enjoyed a scroll through this page last night

For much much worse

https://fordeurope.blogspot.com/2020/02/fords-emoji-jacket-helps-people-to.html

"I've solved all of the issues around increasing cycling!"

"Does your solution use "tech" in any way"

"Yes"

"Then you haven't."

So much this^

The number of cycling conferences that talk about tech solution to cycle promotion encouragement. Bonkers!
The just need to consider cycle training
...and infrastructure
...and enforcement

I dunno. If the 'tech' they were talking about is a localised EMP burster than kills all car engines within a 20m radius of the rider I'd be interested.

localised EMP burster than kills all car engines within a 20m radius

Not very ambitious. 20 Metres?
2 mile radius minimum would be better

#featurecreep

Needs to be able to spell out words.

Pretend I meant 20 miles ;)

Why are Ford using a shitty Blogspot site?

Printed titanium and carbon road bike - but with "the internet of things"
$140,000
https://xon.cerevo.com/en/orbitrec/
They promise to measure your body precisely and build a bike to suit you....
The ioT sensing capability is also pretty vague - but provides pit lane feedback and can warn you that other owners of ioT bikes have fallen off on the next corner https://xon.cerevo.com/en/ride-1/