A Close-Up Look At The Team GB Hope Lotus Olympic Bike
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2022
- The Team GB Hope Lotus racing bike is an icon of cycling. Designed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a collaboration between Hope and Lotus, it is the world’s most expensive racing bike. Alex recently had the opportunity to take a close-up look when he was in Derby filming with Team GB track star Ollie Wood.
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What do you make of the Hope Lotus?
Nice but not super nice. That one is reserved for the Koga Kinsei
Very odd. Horses for courses. If it works, that's all that matters at the Olympics.
Are there different sizes for diff riders, or is it a one size fits all? The seat position all the way back suggests the latter, or a design whoopsie.
Does it come with fenders for commuters?
I struggle to get going on a 1% grade from a standstill when in my 52 so how they get going in that gear I will never know. Track riders are beasts.
Haha I better not tell you about the 64t ring I just fitted 😁
They can probly all squat triple their body weight, the torque they can out is nuts compared to us normies
Amazing bike
A small detail, the bike as is looks like it has standard hex nuts on a solid steel axle, at odds with modern hollow thru axle choice. Seems such old school items are just the job, but it could benefit from some locking nut or improved material.
I'd like to hear a freehub soundcheck hehe :)
"Simplify, then add lightness"
Wow!
A beautifully engineered bike. Can someone make a copy for us mere mortals to buy?
Even if they did, it would co$t upwards of $80K USD.
When lotus helps build a bike, its gonna be good, the lotus sport 110 is still to this day, 1 of the most aero bikes ever built, thats not a recumbent.
Have you watched our documentary over on GCN +?
@@gcntech that i have. It was very tastefully done.
Ollie Wood? What are the chances of that haha.
Hmm... It kind of makes sense that dopping has to do with the bridge.
"Records the Watt-Bombs delivered to this bike from the riders lucky enough to race on it" - wonderful prose, thanks!
Thank you
Its 7.21kg, not 7.27. And that includes bidons for some reason 😂
We need a freehub sound check 😫😫
Lolol? Takin the piss right?
Good joke
@@marksoeplepel 🥴
😂
Didn’t I hear it or did he not mention the price?
It's one of those 'If you have to ask for the price you can't afford it things'. ☹
@@simongoh9461 maybe but interesting non the less.
Bike Radar did a piece on it in 2019 when it was introduced. Bike frame 15,500 GBP, with bars and wheels, 26,000 GBP. They have a breakdown of prices in the article. Those prices will have risen since then.
@@Kim_Miller thanks for that. So it’s the prize of a lower middle class car.
@@Kim_Miller I would think it would be MUCH MUCH higher than that, given that an almost off-the shelf Team USA Felt with two sets of wheels (training and race) now runs over $30K USD. ??
I want more carbon bikes with 3D printed titanium lugs! even though i wouldnt be able to afford it.
They're still pretty cool to look at!
Title states "Worlds most expensive bike" then fails to quote the price.
Because it's pretty much priceLESS once the R&D rolling road wind tunnel months co$t$ are factored into the equation (before one even gets to the layup/manufacturing/materials/machining king's ransom. :)
The Koga Kinsei is being sold currently. And it raced this bike very succesfully in both the olympics and the european championships.
The Koga is sold at roughly 10k frame and cockpit only.
wxr?
This ollie probably don’t get dropped
almost certainly less frequently than our Ollie
It looks cool but when you see such a small difference it makes me think you could easily mandate everyone rides more basic bikes for sustainability reasons and you wouldn’t be losing anything much in terms of performance. It wouldn’t be noticeable enough for viewers. I wouldn’t go as far as they do in Japanese Keirin racing where they all ride super old stuff, but definitely a more standard and possibly aluminium current design.
Did this bike actually make it to the Olympics? I thought it wasn’t ready when the Olympics started.
Yes, it was at the Olympic
I would like to test a fancy track bike. How could this be done?
They wouldn't even let Alex ride it, we had to hand it over to Ollie Wood 👉ruclips.net/video/WyVPOfs3hb4/видео.html
58t? Must be a warmup gear
😬
@@gcntech 85T?
Wherenis the freehub soundtest? 😂😂😂
You do know this is a track-bike don't you...
@@matthewbaynham6286 of course
@@MaxMustermannnnnn ..and track-bikes don't have a freehub
@@matthewbaynham6286 you didn‘t got the joke 🤷♂️
Well how expensive is it??
5 figures
No sound check, disappointed
second
all this to defeat some cheese eating fella's in a koga
A bike this expensive should have it own integral electrical and mechanical security. In my town this bike would be stolen in a flash with a 7.5 kg. ABUS lock and chain.
I don’t think Olympic athletes or wealthy track cyclists are going to be taking this bike on their local commutes…
We probably wouldn't leave this outside the local pub
@@gcntech The police might stop a thief because everything related to road legislation is missing ;-)
Disappointed that th still insist in putting that dreadful sticker on it ruining weight and aero and etc.
More expensive than a Vorteq Worx WX-R?
Can't put 'most expensive' in the title and not even talk about the price 😂
Boom 1st
Boom virgin
All that engineering and they still have the knob to adjust the wheel sticking out in the wind….novices
The only thing uglier than this bike is my ex wife..
Given that comment, and the fact that this looks great, maybe she wasn't the problem...
Also the ugliest bike...
'FUNKY' looking to say the least, but the science and physics is definitely there. ;)
That's the ugliest bike I've ever seen