Omni

[Cuchilo]

Not my cup of tea

http://www.tririg.com/store.php?c=Omni

 

[S-Express]

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Not my cup of tea

http://www.tririg.com/store.php?c=Omni

I reckon it looks rather shapely compared to many of the attempts we've seen on here. However, as I'm going to need a pannier later this morning, I'll leave it for someone else to ride.

 

[Cycleops]

It's a specialist machine to do a specific job. Attractive in an ugly sort of way, especially the Omni. I could hang that on my wall and get pleasure just looking at it.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Both the Omni and the Lotus pictured here display some incredible properties of carbon fibre. Have a look at the incredibly small clearance between tyre and frame and then note that neither of these bikes have a seatstay supporting the chainstay. The chainstays are both pure cantilevers, yet, they are stiff enough to prevent the back wheel moving up and down.
I once experienced this first hand when I had to saw up a carbon Bianchi frame for warrantee purposes. The practice is to remove the BB by hacksaw and send the photo to the distributor to satisfy them the frame has been destroyed. I fooled around a bit and removed the seatstays and then attmpted to break the chainstays off by sitting on the frame (no wheels) and leaning back. Eventually everyone in the workshop was bouncing on it but no go. The trick was then to ask unsuspecting customers to try and break it off. Eventually the hacksaw did the trick. I turned the head tube with its nice head badge into a toothbrush cup but the boss in the household didn't think it was classy enough for our bathroom.It then became a pencil holder in the workshop.

 

[Nibor]

They are using the material to its true potential rather than sticking to old designs. Imagine what could be done in the recumbent field if this approach was taken.

 

[S-Express]

They are using the material to its true potential rather than sticking to old designs. Imagine what could be done in the recumbent field if this approach was taken.

Recumbents have never been the subject of design constraints.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Recumbents have never been the subject of design constraints.

Surely you didn't mean to add "constraints" to the sentence?

 

[S-Express]

Surely you didn't mean to add "constraints" to the sentence?

Yeah, now you mention it..

 

[Nibor]

Surely you didn't mean to add "constraints" to the sentence?

Yes but they still make them from tubes not a carbon monocoque

 

[winjim]

Carbon fibre bikes made out of tubing resemble metallic framed bikes in the way that vegetarian sausages resemble real meat. I'd rather have a carbon bike that used the material to its full potential, just as I'd rather have a proper vegetarian meal that wasn't pretending to be something else.

 

[S-Express]

Yes but they still make them from tubes not a carbon monocoque

I'm not the word's greatest authority on recumbents, but I'm pretty sure some of them are carbon monocoque.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I jut meant they (recumbents) are ugly and certainly not "designed". I'm no authority, but I suppose if you pay that amount for a sweaty-back device you have to at least pretend that you think it is beautiful.

 

[Nibor]

I'm not the word's greatest authority on recumbents, but I'm pretty sure some of them are carbon monocoque.

I haven't seen any

 

[Fab Foodie]

I quite like it ....