Originally Posted by
RoadTire
Well, this thread and new member got off to a great start. Ryan likes his bike, and that should be good enough. But this is a bicyle forum and being picky and opinionated is just part of the ... obsession. For all we know he's a CAT 1 racer an this is just an esotoric toy. However: that is the most impractcal and unattactive bike I've seen in a while. The think steel tubes, unfinished welds, high top tube and very low, fixed height bars show not forththoght or consideration for the safety and comfort for most riders. Not only that but the little electroninc thing seems to be mounted off-center. The bike mfg site says this make it "....flowy." Seriously?
Honestly, from the outside, this is what I'd guess happened ...
Company in Tallinn gets an email about EU money (this always happens) and says, I go to the bar, give it 3 hours and then submit something and be done with it. This happens all the time with EU funding. Then he says, I'll write something interesting after a beer or two and then finishes it up by calculating how much the employee and materials would cost (€16k over 4 months) in this case. He told the EU, he'd keep the bike available after the first bundle of between 3 and 10 if anyone wanted to custom order it. He can do this as he has a regular bike company as well.
No one would usually buy it but it will get a lot of publicity.
That's why i wanted to know if the OP was in Tallinn, maybe he took/was given one of the first bikes. Maybe, he bought one, but he won one.
Maybe he doesn't have one.
It's quite an interesting guessing game, that's all.
Maybe I'll check him out more when I'm in Tallinn agaiN!