Each lug in a different colour please.

Mmmmm Black! I want NOW!!!!!!!

(then I'd take off every single decal and have the perfect stealth bike; black is soooooo much faster - especially at night :)).

No, that's the 19th century part... :D

Piet Mondrian version???

Or Benetton...

not all primary colors please

and there dealers who try to stock there product.....

Nice bike, nice technology. Oh well. $$$$$$$$$$$ is the only thing holding the poor guy up.

Looks like my 2006 Spec. Roubaix Al/carbon stays will be the highest tech I 'll be able to afford.

$6000 and up! I'll take the red and black.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour...nss-yellow-bmc

Your one chance to see it in yellow. Yes, it's still ugly. ;)

i still like it.

what does this thing weigh?

according to BMC, it's not very light. It's made to take advantage of the UCI weight limit.

Weight for the frame, post, fork, and headset is 1790g.

And for those interested, a good read:

http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2010/07/the-bmc-impec/

Thanks.

Bicycling magazine: "There was no perceptible sway to the frame and a welcome absence of road noise. Comfort was paramount, but not at the cost of stiffness."

How many ways can they churn out their standard "laterally stiff yet vertically compliant" review?

Bicycling really is a useless rag.

Whilst the red lugs are a bit in your face I think that the real stand out thing about this is the engineering process. The Imperfect is the start...thats what we have to remember. As articles have said this will trickle down into the companies other frames. This much more accurate than layup for creating tubes. :thumb:

I love the jigs used for assembly a bike built by engineers. Go Ti for your work of art, the Impec is all about repitition and manufacturing tolerance. Humans are still involved but just to move bits around...hmmm the future??:twitchy:

Piers

I want to like it, especially since I don't want to seem biased since I opted for a Pro Machine, but ICK! From an asthetics standpoint, those clamshell lugs in the accent color is hideous, especially against the carbon weave. Even in all black they're pretty ugly. I'll assume the engineers know what they're doing though and the thing is a stiff yet compliant rocket. In the end, it's about the ride, not the looks.

LOL

Yet it explains why I think it looks cool

I don't like anime but I like this bike.

The anime reference that came to my mind:
http://www.kent.net/robotech/mecha/r...tler-cycle.gif

Noticed Cadel Evans was on a Team Machine not his TDF Impec at the World Champs in Geelong - maybe the Impec's not ready for the big show yet?

marketing.

Probably it is easier to built also, just tack the tubes then epoxy the lugs in place. Faster to built, more units in the same time, costs should go down. Price in the street is high so more money for them.