Fully six years after first inventing the donut-shaped Ciclo exercise bike, Luca Schiepppati?s design has made it into production. Called the Ciclotte, his elegant piece of gym-kit has been reborn as a $10,000 piece of eye-candy.
Here are a few examples from the specs, as no doubt filtered through the Ciclotte PR department. The machine is made of ?exceptional materials such as carbon, steel and glass fibre? and is ?a complete innovation in the fitness field.?
The weasel-wording continues. The transmission is a hub-less ?epicycloid? system, which sounds impressive until you remember that an exercise bike doesn?t even need a wheel, and therefore it doesn?t require a hub. Also, ?epicycloid? is just the line made if you follow a point on a circle as it rolls around another larger circle. Take a look at the way the ?chainring? rolls around the inside of the wheel and you can see where the inspiration for this fancy naming came from. What is neat is the magnetic big-wheel, which provides the resistance to actually build up some muscle.
It all seems to come down to looks, and being cynical, that?s arguably the most important thing in a stationary bike. After all, these things are only ever used for a week at most before being dumped in the basement. The Ciclotte, on the other hand, can stay on show while you don?t use it, it?s carbon seat and bull?s horn handlebars and touch-screen cyclocomputer never being touched except by the cleaning maid?s feather-duster.
Should you be in the market for such a piece of home decoration, though, check out our review.
Ciclotte product page [Ciclotte via Uncrate]
See Also:
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