This page is the result of extensive research into latest bikes innovations, trends in bike fashion, favourite trails, etc.
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From our French fact finding tour…
- Gender Inclusive
Gender Inclusive
The French government, in world leading trends, has set government policy making all bikes gender inclusive. The new lower middle bar design, means no longer segregation between the people of France, and any Frence citizen can ride any bike without fear or favour. This design concept also enables the french ‘men of the cloth’ to ride bicycles, in full clergy garb, ensuring they are always available, and ready for, a blessing, and the full garb protects them from accidents.
- Bi-wheeled
Bi-wheeled
The French powered bicycle fraternity is leading innovative design with bi-front-wheeled design. This innovation, expected to be adopted by the unpowered bicycle fraternity will provide mountain bikers greater stability & control, in all circumstances.
- Self-taxi Bicycles
Self-taxi Bicycles
In order to reduce green house gasses, and as a result of pressure of sustainability fund investment managers, the French have launched a new system of self-driven taxi bicycles. Located at key sites around the city, the gender inclusive, self-taxi bicycles, can be picked up and dropped off, and will dramatically reduce global warming.
- French engineers are experimenting with frameless bikes, wheeless bikes and warped warped wheel bikes. Sources whom have visited the bike shop at les petits velos de Maurice on bd Voltaire in the 12th, indicate that these french innovations will revolutionize the mountain biking industry. Leading teams in tour de france may even adopt these innovations as early as 2010.
wheeless bike
warped wheel bike
Frameless bike..
John,
While I have every faith in your final research results I am concerned that you are consulting the wrong ‘experts’. While on one of my trips to Bern in Switzland I discussed the capacity of a bike with 4 very drunk locals who ‘ran’ across me while journeying home after a night on the town – on one bike… They were successfully negotiating the cobbles with a warped front and back wheel (my guess is that the weight of four large males had stretched the limit of design engineering), rubbing panier on the back wheel (once again probably the weight of the drunkest passenger, although the term “drunkest” is probably relative), a front brake only tha came out of the Ark although they assured me it worked well up hill but was a bit dicey down hill, and no working gears.
My point is that you really need a trip to Holland or Bern to fully assess the state of bicycle innovation in Europe.
Enjoy,