It’s not often that a truly innovative and possibly ground breaking bicycle design comes along, aside from the madcap concept bikes we’re used to seeing yearly at the big bicycle shoes, but the Factor100 could be the most advanced bicycle ever seen.
Developed by Beru, an F1 components design company, the Factor100 uses the very latest technologies from motor sport, from aerospace and from the world’s top materials research laboratories to create an integrated bicycle.
Beru says: “The fully integrated, multi-channel ergonometric data recording system will deliver a richer record of athletic performance than could previously be achieved. For the first time, riders and their coaches will collect and analyse laboratory-quality data in a real-word environment.”
The bike is made from carbon fibre using the same modelling and analysis software used to design F1 cars, weighs under 7kg, and features on-board computers, performance monitoring systems, GPS and radio integrated into the handlebars and elsewhere in the bicycles. Beru adds that the Factor100 “…can correlate biometric data from the rider, physical force data from the bike and environmental data,” to change the way athletes undertake fitness training.
You’ll have the chance to see the bike at the Science Museums ‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’ exhibition, open now until 5 April.
And the cost? £20,000. Start saving now then…
More at www.factor001.com
