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General Category => Freewheeling => The Dark Side => Topic started by: Cunobelin on 05 March, 2009, 07:54:29 pm

Title: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Cunobelin on 05 March, 2009, 07:54:29 pm: This was in Velovision...

(http://www.innesenti.com/innesenti.com/INNESENTI_files/_DSC0100a.jpg)

A carbon fibre trike (http://www.innesenti.com/innesenti.com/INNESENTI.html)
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Charlotte on 05 March, 2009, 08:05:39 pm: Nice looking bit of kit, but they should fire their copywriter...
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Torslanda on 05 March, 2009, 08:38:28 pm: Quote from: Charlotte on 05 March, 2009, 08:05:39 pm
Nice looking bit of kit, but they should fire their copywriter...

Perfect example of 'geeks shouldn't sell' syndrome.

I'm only jealous - I designed it in 1994 (onnabeermat) just never got round to building it.

J
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: byegad on 06 March, 2009, 08:31:08 am: I suspect the copy was written in another language and computer translated.
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Jon P on 06 March, 2009, 01:32:11 pm: Quote
Iridescent green shoes! a style icon?

Erm, I'll get back to you on that one.

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The Innesenti is extremely safe, you are highly visible and stand out on the road, because you are different. Therefore you will be noticed much more than when riding a bicycle.

This has to be bad style in any language?
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Pneumant on 06 March, 2009, 03:50:59 pm: If you can't fall off it why are the riders wearing helmets?
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: FatBloke on 06 March, 2009, 04:13:50 pm: Quote
Every component of the Innesenti has been tried and tested over some 4,000 miles

Wow! As much as that!! ::-)

So chronically under-tested then.
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: Riggers on 06 March, 2009, 04:55:40 pm: … and they haven't tested it with you on either Fatters!

Christ! You know where I live!!
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: StuAff on 06 March, 2009, 11:41:31 pm: It looks like a fine piece of work, though the site's a bit sparse on those rather important details and rather big on hyperbole. How much does it weigh for a start...? 'No compromise' design, eh? How exactly is that possible? All design involves compromise. But if I had £8k to spend on bike/trike(s), I could have:
1. A Moulton Double Pylon. Plus £50 change.
2. A recumbent trike- a HPV Scorpion fs, for example (I don't know much about recumbents or trikes- though I'd like one if I ever had the space and budget- but that struck me as pretty good), and a high-end road bike (eg a Viner Maxima- I mean high end), and some change.
3. A Moulton Esprit or AM, and a recumbent, and a decent road bike....
All of which strike me as more appealing than one unproven and seemingly overpriced trike. I can only agree 4k miles doesn't count as intensive testing. I wish him luck, but he'll need it.....
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: TimO on 07 March, 2009, 12:05:00 am: It looks like a pretty well designed trike, but at £8000 they aren't going to get many takers.

I can't quite work out what nightmare the "Sprockley" solves. It looks like it's just a gear with a couple of discs either side to help keep the chain on, or is there something more to it? People have designed umpteen different ways to deal with long chain runs under recumbent trikes, and most of them work. I can't say that it seems like a massive issue.
Title: Re: A bargain at £8000!
Post by: byegad on 07 March, 2009, 09:35:26 am: Reading between the lines it sounds like they've had a lot of chain management issues in development. Neither of my trikes (each at a quarter of the price of the one in question) have had any chain management issues. But they are 'compromised designs', both can trace their ancestry back a long way, one over 10 years the other nearly 20.