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World's Lightest Bike ?

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  • #2
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    Lumen might be able to rival that.


  • #3
    TheBlaaMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭TheBlaaMan


    It just shows what can be achieved.....all that carbon!:eek:

    Still, the shifters are fairly cack, IMO....;)


  • #4
    Keep_Her_Lit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Keep_Her_Lit


    Pretty amazing alright. One might assume that the product of a project like this would be no more than a piece of jewellry - something to showcase cutting edge technology but built with no intention of being ridden. But it has been well used according to the article.

    I guessed that the UCI 6.8kg limit was chosen primarily for safety - based on the idea that bikes lighter than this might fail catastrophically in the hands of a pro rider. But if a sub-3kg bike can be reliable for 19,000km, surely a 5kg bike could withstand a season of professional use.

    What criteria does the UCI apply when deciding the weight limit? Is it likely to be revised downwards soon?


  • #5
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    i see he developed health problems from it, let that be a warning to ye from over-carboning!


  • #6
    TheBlaaMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭TheBlaaMan


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    i see he developed health problems from it, let that be a warning to ye from over-carboning!

    Yeah, apparently over the 19000km, he absorbed trace elements of residual carbon into his skin, immediate to the saddle resulting in a carbon-like permanent hard-on that has stayed with him, meaning its now impossible for him to comfortably ride (.....the bike, that is)




    or perhaps I just made that up.......

    :D


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