Now that’s an interesting looking bike but a trash compartment??? Hmmmmm, are we overthinking integration a bit?
Actually, I think in LD tri - putting sticky used gels in with unused just makes a mess…I would prefer two compartments. And never would have thought about it so I think it’s pretty genius actually!
This is pretty forward thinking, I think…well done DB.
I do like the out-out-the-box thinking. Especially the shrouded chain ring, if that is actually legal…
But a white paper with no wind-tunnel results? Did they really only do tiny-scale testing??
And this:
“THE INTRODUCTION OF ROAD BIKE DISC BRAKES SIGNALED ANOTHER TANTALIZING POSSIBILITY FOR ANDEAN. Disc brakes outperform rim brakes and their calipers are more easily hidden from the wind. And given the wheels-first design process of Andean, rim brakes just aren’t in the cards: the future of wheel technology will undoubtedly feature discs.”
Makes me wonder how much of this is a team making a serious bike for serious athletes or is it like the shiny new optimus prime transformer I wanted as a kid - looks super-technical and science-y and bad-ass but really is just a futuristic looking toy.
I do like the out-out-the-box thinking. Especially the shrouded chain ring, if that is actually legal…
But a white paper with no wind-tunnel results? Did they really only do tiny-scale testing??
And this:
“THE INTRODUCTION OF ROAD BIKE DISC BRAKES SIGNALED ANOTHER TANTALIZING POSSIBILITY FOR ANDEAN. Disc brakes outperform rim brakes and their calipers are more easily hidden from the wind. And given the wheels-first design process of Andean, rim brakes just aren’t in the cards: the future of wheel technology will undoubtedly feature discs.”
Makes me wonder how much of this is a team making a serious bike for serious athletes or is it like the shiny new optimus prime transformer I wanted as a kid - looks super-technical and science-y and bad-ass but really is just a futuristic looking toy.
Sigh…another disc brake equipped Tri bike ironically shown with Hed Jet Black rims
“Calipers are more easily hidden from the wind”? Really?? Better tell that to the Speed Concept :-/
Yeah, the lack of ANY tunnel data is pretty disappointing…
I am actually excited about tri bike design again, the first fully and i mean fully integrated tri bike. You could ever store a beer for the post ride party.
I remember having a conversation with Brad DeVaney (head engineer at QR) about a “MotoGP-style bike” - Brad’s background is in motorcycle racing - back in 2007. Same conversation where we talked about moving air away from the drivetrain that eventually morphed into QR’s “shift” technology that I think is pretty cool and if another company besides QR were doing it, it’d get a lot more notice. Anyway, I’m actually sort of surprised it took so long…
Beyond that, I think it’s at least an intriguing thought experiment. Would be nice if they’d picked another athlete to work with, though. At the very least, I would think they’d want an athlete who has at least some credibility. When you have a design that is that crazy, convincing people to even give you a chance is a huge, huge obstacle. And I don’t see Weiss helping them very much in that regard.
Gerard doesn’t post on here much anymore, but I seem to recall him saying that they were actually able to beat the Baracchi pretty handily with the P3, so that you didn’t really need to be all that crazy to be fast. If anyone else recalls anything along these lines, please correct me or otherwise clarify…
