A friend of mine (and you can choose to believe I don't have any friends if you wish) sent me an e-mail tonight with a link to information about these prototype bicycles Specialized seems to be behind. You may already know all about them, have seen them before a dozen times and not be interested whatsoever but they were new to me and I thought I would share them with you. I didn't include the link my friend sent me as it had rude pictures of naughty ladies on it and all the links of the bike images seemed to take one to bawdy websites but there's relevant information on the bikes here.
It seems all but the turquoise/aquamarine bike are mountain bikes (whatever one of those is. I've heard of them but can't say I've ever seen one) and the turquoise/aquamarine bike is a road bike.
Some of them appear a bit flimsy to me but I'm guessing the bigwigs in the bike design department have a bit more knowledge than me when it comes to making bicycles and probably a little more information than some photos they've looked at on the internet too.
Oh, incidentally, I hope you like my spelling of 'crazy' as 'kerayzee' for the title of this post. It's always very classy to get a bit of 80's metal spelling in whenever possible. Additionally, while I'm wittering anyway, I hope the format of this post works and you haven't got the images appearing over text and everything looking a bit random.
4 comments:
Greetings from Australia.
I saw your comment at //cfsmtb.blogspot.com/
Those bike pix are great.
cheers, Mate.
Hi Brownie,
I'm glad to hear my begging worked and got someone to read this blog. Hoorah and thanks for the comment!
They're are incredible looking bikes, aren't they? Just looking at them again, I can't work out how most of them could be steered (or exactly why they are the way they are for any practical reasons). It all reeks of an elaborate hoax to me but I don't understand why it would be. I guess it might just be one of those 'off the wall' prototypes which never really comes through when it comes to production. Hmmm....
Just had another look at those pictures and I'm 99.9% sure that I've seen the last one before- a good few years ago in a cycling mag. That one at least is not a new design by a long shot. If memory serves me well, and it often doesn't, I'd say it was more than five years ago.
If that's what they were designing then why aren't there amazing designs available to buy now?
I would imagine they probably found them to be completely impractical when it comes to attempts to actually use the bikes. The frame of the last bike (the road bike) looks, to me, like it would be a danger in heavy crosswinds. I reckon it's too substantial and wouldn't be safe.
They probably used about one element of their fantastic designs in production bicycles. Most likely something along the lines of bar tape or a crankset. One of the more mundane parts anyway.
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