Etterra ,

Company: how can we convince out of shape tech bros to spend $10k on a bicycle?

EmperorHenry ,
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That looks like it would be extremely unreliable and needlessly expensive to maintain. Maybe even impossible for the average person to maintain it

ssj2marx ,

But it looks cool and that's totally worth buying into a proprietary ecosystem and getting something incompatible with 99% of bike parts.

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

The designer said the bike really "spoke" to them.

Hildegarde ,

Imagine designing a bicycle without triangles. Every joint needs to be overbuilt, because there's no structure from the geometry. But you make sure it still has a top tube, so its just as hard to mount and dismount as a normal bike. Incredible!

Kecessa ,
dejected_warp_core ,

Hey, look here buddy. You can't be your own comment thread and post all the plausible responses yourself like that. You're putting all the trolls out of work.

pyre ,

doesn't that prove their point? they all look overbuilt, as the original commenter said.

Kecessa ,

Carbon fiber, aerodynamics...

For this one it's used as suspension (not carbon fiber)

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/372f9e65-2934-449e-bf3e-414bcb71e196.jpeg

Not that rare in old mountain bikes either, pretty sure my old steel Raleigh was similar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7c06b8a6-c858-42ac-baaa-3a341b9f4097.jpeg

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