Cheese grater bike frame ;-) Pretty interesting.
03-15-14, 05:29 AM
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I think Arantix introduced that the same year Calfee made their (one-off?) Spider bike, which I always liked.
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03-15-14, 05:46 AM
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03-15-14, 05:56 AM
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I'm not sure who it was but I do know the company was sold a year or so ago and there was some design and production improvements done before the brand was launched again recently.
03-15-14, 08:59 AM
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Can you imagine keeping that thing clean? Here are a number of folks here who won't take the 'nice bike' out in the rain - and those are conventional tubes!
03-15-14, 09:13 AM
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It seems like this would be less aero on a windy day but one helluva cheese grater!
03-15-14, 10:54 AM
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I knew of those bikes, and was aware that the company was the vicinity of my home. But, I hadn't ever actually seen one. Last summer during a ride at a convenience store stop, a woman riding one of them rolled in with a small group. I began talking to her about her unusual bike, and it turned out that she is married to the guy behind the whole concept. She said that they would be coming back into limited production soon. She assured me that if I wanted one she could help make it happen. I chuckled. For me, the story is far more interesting than the bike. The guy behind it is a very inventive and creative engineer who came up with and developed the idea while in school at a local university. Kudos for thinking outside the box. But as most of us know, not every 'outside the box' idea is a good one.
03-15-14, 10:57 AM
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I knew of those bikes, and was aware that the company was the vicinity of my home. But, I hadn't ever actually seen one. Last summer during a ride at a convenience store stop, a woman riding one of them rolled in with a small group. I began talking to her about her unusual bike, and it turned out that she is married to the guy behind the whole concept. She said that they would be coming back into limited production soon. She assured me that if I wanted one she could help make it happen. I chuckled. For me, the story is far more interesting than the bike. The guy behind it is a very inventive and creative engineer who came up with and developed the idea while in school at a local university. Kudos for thinking outside the box. But as most of us know, not every 'outside the box' idea is a good one.
03-15-14, 07:31 PM
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It's an old design, with no real benefit over what is already being produced at a much lower cost.
03-15-14, 08:02 PM
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Sorry I disparaged your friends business interest Bob. Can you comment on what he plans to do with it?
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03-15-14, 08:48 PM
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I have no idea what his plan is or why he bought the brand. He had a new frame in his booth at TPE show so he must have something in mind but I wasnt interested enough to ask.
03-15-14, 09:16 PM
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WTF would anyone buy that company/design?
03-16-14, 07:57 AM
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Actually, thinking about it, there may have been some technology involved in working the carbon that was really at the heart of the investment. Who knows.
03-16-14, 09:02 AM
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yeah, I'd say the carbon weave might be able to be used for something else in the future, but bikes, not so much.
