Originally Posted by Repack Rider

Found this thread by tracking back the link to my site to the photo of the Alenax.

While "Cranky Old Dude" defends the Alenax, I actually rode the one in the photo on my website. It is the worst bicycle design I have ever tried.

On a rotary crankset the rider's weight is balanced on the bottom bracket. On the Alenax it is a crank length FORWARD of the BB, and that changes...well, everything. The effect is that unweighting the front wheel to float over an obstacle while applying power is not an option. You can't "wheelie," because you can't lift the front wheel an inch off the ground. Then of course you have the "pole vault" crank hanging down, waiting to snag on anything.

I have a couple of pages on my website, which have already been mined for display here, of weird bike stuff that was supposed to revolutionize the industry. So far, the only people who really did that were the mountain bikers.