$46,000 bike!

[Ross]

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/the-46000-push-bike-20100225-p5pv.html

http://images.theage.com.au/2010/02/25/1173812/push-bike-420x0.jpg

t takes a week to build and costs the best part of a decent wage, but the Factor 001 can monitor your skin temperature and determine how powerful each of your legs is.

Electronic gears, sleek carbon-fibre body, optional carbon-fibre brakes: they sound like car features but in fact they describe a very special bicycle.

British retailer Harrods is expected to soon stock the Factor 001, a super high-tech bike made by motorsport engineering company BERU f1systems.

For the equivalent of about $46,000, you get a bike that takes six engineers a week to build. There's hydraulic brakes integrated into the frame and a Shimano Di2 electronic gear shift.

The frame is also packed with load sensors, wiring, batteries and control cables that help the bike to collect up to 100 separate bits of ergonometric data—from skin temperature to respiration rate and humidity to individual leg power output.

The rider can later download these for analysis.

[Chris]

$46,000 for a bike that isn't race legal crazy.

[j_young_80]

When's it arrive Lee?

[RobF]

hahaha

[Avi]

She was looking for something for her son.

[Etienne1989]

hahahahahahahhah, but seriously who would ever buy/ride this bike? i would never choose this bike over mine.

[Andrew]

It has disc brakes. Nice. However, I was told they're not UCI legal?

[Hoops]

Put this one infront of Thaller after a night on the piss and it'd be a 50/50 chance of being snapped up.

[j_young_80]

The frame is also packed with load sensors, wiring, batteries and control cables that help the bike to collect up to 100 separate bits of ergonometric data—from skin temperature to respiration rate and humidity to individual leg power output.

The rider can later download these for analysis.

Some valuable data to be had there, the number of times i've wanted to know my skin temp on a ride is amazing.

[anla]

also good to know that individual leg power - oh wait my polar can already do that

[tor.lattimore]

oh wait my polar can already do that

Oh wait, it has to be on your bike, or have you disobeyed your master at smiths cycles and cluttered up your beautifully crafted Fuji frame?

[Bean]

The rider can later download these for analysis.

Lee, you will need a computer and an IT expert as well.

[SSSimon]

46k - after tax. Anyone contemplating this to improve their cycling should immediately take 3 months off work and ride around Australia. It will cost you less than $46k and you will come back a stronger rider. Probably toughen most people up as well.

[Andrew]

Put this one infront of Thaller after a night on the piss and it'd be a 50/50 chance of being snapped up.

Yeahh... I won't be doing anything like that for a while...