http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25204142-5018055,00.html
Supports comments I read recently in an interview by Vroom et al about where bike design is headed (ie integration and more integration). Not sure a US$27K price tag is timed exactly beautifully given GFC and all but there it is…
The brakes would be interesting enough on a bike…they’d have to be more aero-dynamic than a normal brake set-up. Wonder if when you sit on the seat, the bike detects how much your fat-a$$ weights!!! I personally couldn’t care for the electronics.
I sure wouldn’t buy it, but we use some of the beru load cells and load cell amps at work. They are some of the best out there and are really good to work with on custom stuff.
A formula 1 design team and they churn out that brick? And what’s with the hydro brakes? Yea they perform better, but at what weight cost? And who wants to swallow a pill before a ride to log core temp? Sounds like an answer without a problem.
I do think integrated components will be popping up soon now that electronic groupos are starting to go mainstream.
the best thing about that whole thing isn’t the bike, it’s the wireless core temperature technology.
I did three long course races last year where I would have loved to know my core temp. The technology is available TODAY, all we need is a usable interface or for Polar to add a screen to my watch that picks up the bluetooth signal.
To complement that, the bike can monitor the rider’s breathing and heart rate through sensors on a wireless strap applied to the chest, and core temperature through a digestible pill. The pill - a “one use only,” BERU managing director John Bailey emphasises - uses Blue Tooth to communicate with the head unit.
They need to tell that to the legions of coaches that have made their athletes retrieve the pills for multiple uses. 