The More Cash Than Brains Track Bike The Worx WX-R Vorteq $39,000 ? :(

[Anthony.R.Brown]

https://www.wx-r.com

So if you are one of those riders with more Cash than Brains ? then go get yourself a Worx WX-R Vorteq for $39,000 ?
I Guarantee a good rider would go just as fast using a Steel framed track bike with good components they don't have to be the best,position is about the most important thing the rest is Marketing garbage!

 

[classic33]

£27,000, peanuts...

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TEvqX1cLN9E

 

[midlife]

Doesn't the UK track bike have to be available to buy to qualify for the Olympics. About £40,000?

 

[Cycleops]

And it doesn’t even have brakes, ask the Danes

 

[classic33]

And it doesn’t even have brakes, ask the Danes

Track bikes have brakes!

 

[Cuchilo]

Jealousy is an awful trait .

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

Jealousy is an awful trait .

Looks like one of the Worx WX-R Vorte Sales people have logged in

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

And it doesn’t even have brakes, ask the Danes

And after a person has paid out $39,000 for the thing they then have to spend even more money on pedals ?

 

[T4tomo]

Oh christ he's off on one again.. yes Anthony aerodynamics of the bikes itself is completely irrelevant to the overall aerodynamics of the rider and bike combined.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I Guarantee a good rider would go just as fast using a Steel framed track bike with good components they don't have to be the best,position is about the most important thing the rest is Marketing garbage!

Well that's that decided! Still, I bet all the Olympic teams in the last 25+ years are gutted that they wasted all that time, effort and cash on R+D, testing etc. It turns out they should have just ridden a steel bike and the records would have just kept falling anyway.

 

[MichaelW2]

As used by the Malaysian Olympic track cycling team. Does some Malaysian car company magnate own Vortex ?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Well that's that decided! Still, I bet all the Olympic teams in the last 25+ years are gutted that they wasted all that time, effort and cash on R+D, testing etc. It turns out they should have just ridden a steel bike and the records would have just kept falling anyway.

Agreed. Case proven by OP yet again. Thread closed

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

Well that's that decided! Still, I bet all the Olympic teams in the last 25+ years are gutted that they wasted all that time, effort and cash on R+D, testing etc. It turns out they should have just ridden a steel bike and the records would have just kept falling anyway.

Yes! they wasted 25+ years for nothing! Eddy Merckx hour record using a Steel Track bike has stood the test of time! the main reason they go so much further is because of what I said above "Position is everything" and the Banned Tri bar position is not allowed if a person wants to try and break Eddy Merckx hour record using a Steel Track bike etc.

 

[classic33]

Looks like one of the Worx WX-R Vorte Sales people have logged in

I've nowt to do with them.

 

[HMS_Dave]

I hear that TeamGB will be using Elephant Bikes in Paris 2024.