Andrew Feather is one of the world’s best climbers, and his V02 Max puts him in with Tour de France GC riders. The hill climb specialist has serious watts and now he has a bike to match.
Swi-Cycling has provided him with its Aequus, a €10,900 frameset that boasts a full monocoque construction.
Builds run to €21,000, but what do you think of this superbike?
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32 Comments
€10,900 for the framest!? GTFOH. How are there people that can just overlook the price?
Stop being grumpy. Fantastic piece of engineering. Some people can afford this bike, good for them. Not me, so what? Am I jealous ? Not at all, I am perfectly happy with my 2 700€ bike. Period.
Such a lovely guy and a brilliant rider!
This is why bike industry is falling………..
I am a firm believer that amateur riders should comply with the UCI’s requirements. So 6.8 kg minimum and no e-bikes etc.
My Focus izalco Max,rim brakes,with superlight prototype carbon weels,with dura ace kit and fsa kforce light weights 5.870kg,but costs only 4000.👍
Another video from a cycling yt channel pushing a bike that 99.99% of riders would never buy. How novel.
There is no need to get hung up on the word monocoque. Other brands are not lying….did you know F1 teams produce their tubs in two halves first, then join them together for the inner skins stage? Is that still a "true" monocoque??
For that price it better make coffee and laundry lol
Aethos would be lighter. No?
Disc brakes? Wtf?
Hideous it is, extremely ripoff yes! $4,000 manufacturing cost, with a 6x profit margin, perfect scenario! Colnago V4RS, with Dura ace Di2 is a million times better at $12,000!
I'm waiting for the time when there comes a graphene monolayer bike. Finally a true single crystalline single layer carbon bike.
Very expensive. Last year, some participants had sub 5kg bikes for much less money.
I was gonna say good luck, but he's probably gonna win again 🤣
Are there rules on having gears and 2 brakes for these events? I'm curious how much you actually may shift or not in such a short event, could you run it singlespeed, lose the rear der entirely and use a tensioner or if you got lucky, none needed if chain length good, and ditch the levers entirely and run a TT base bar for hand position? If you got the height right it'd be doable for 3 minutes, and you'd lose another kg or more?
New Technology= Rim Brakes 👍👍
I'm on 21c Tubular Tyres in Winter 🥶
23mm tires!!! Hahahah but they said wide tires are faster!
My TIME endurance bike, has much more "agressive" and small tire clearance, than SWI.
PS Cipollini, PAVO IV by Simplon are also true full-monocoque carbon frame.
Shorter wheel base means less of a straight line
They should do a single day 3 stage race with different climbs.
Monocoque means nothing single strand is everything. strands of carbon that run through out the entire frame is what would be efficient
That's a Feather weight!
Ok as cool as this is, what’s the point aside from bragging rights? I mean the guy says it’s 300 grams lighter than the last bike. That’s ten ounces. Take a piss and there you go. I just saved you thousands of dollars.
Hillclimbing needs rules & regs otherwise it's not really a fair contest. The lightest bloke on the lightest bike wins. Bring in a motorsport style BOP, and make it interesting, and more people can win.
Spending that much for a niche competition is just nonsensical.
21k and has Hunt rims 😂😂😂
37 seconds in and I’m sure feather is sitting in a wheelchair 😂
Nobody in the comments section seems to understand how expensive the hobbies are for accomplished men. They also have no clue how expensive a large mold is.
I wonder what happens if you run over a marble-sized pebble on a descent and it flies up and smacks the downtube. Bikes like this are fun to look at but unless the sponsor is buying you a replacement every time they encounter the real world, they're basically single-use items.
This is the top of the top. Quit wining about price.
'Radial tyres?'
Honestly not that impressive. My disc brakes Ultimate CFR comes at 5.8kg with 45mm aero wheels, 12×2 Dura-Ace 9200, pedals, garmin and varia mounts and a bar tape 😀 And its painted. This build cost me around €13,000.