They’ve gone to great lengths to disguise it as a Cannondale if it is 
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assuming it’s a bit unstable at times as the branding is upside down as well on the down tube
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christ on a bike - that is truly fugly!
however I like their attempt to bypass the ITU “unusual bikes” rule by having what could be loosely described as a “diamond” frame, but in reality is just another beam bike with 2 downtubes, not one. be interesting to see what the ITU Tech Commiteee make of it.
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I think they approached him but he told them to f off, he’d rather be crucified than seen on that.
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I’d go to great lengths to disguise it also if I owned it. Fucking hideous
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Once they’d stopped laughing they would also say its fugly
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It looks like one of those exercise bikes where you move the handlebars back and forth at the same time.
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not far wrong there knowing what a few of them are like
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Ah… lower more aero, longer wheelbase for highspeed stability… pull up & shorten wheelbase for better handling on those dead turns. Let me get my sketchbook out 
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And why does it have road brake levers, without drops, rather than tt levers?
Where did this picture come from? I’m curious if there’s an article and/or other angles
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I stumbled across it on FB, I’ll see if I can find it again.
I realised I could reverse image search, and have found some more pictures on a German E-Bay page… WTF.
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/rennrad-triathlon-zeitfahrrad-carbon-ultegra-continental-reifen/1409558554-217-3433
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google translate says:
“Batman” softride triathlon training road bike one-off custom-made
26 inch wheels.
Negotiable price"
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possible translation says:
previously blind person regains sight needs quick/any sale
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So if it’s a custom made one-off it has absolutely nothing to do with Cannondale then?
Someone must have got some really sh1tty customer service from them. They could have just left a review on Trust Pilot but decided to construct that monstrosity and plaster it in their logos for total humiliation!
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Price negotiable apparently, so you might get it for €1k, which is what it’s worth.
Still think there’s a fundamental flaw in its ability to handle the torque but they’re persevering with it and it now shifts.
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Yeah, friction massively reduced…but then so is ‘traction’.
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It just stinks of a never-never product that already served its purpose of getting their name a lot of press time. The basic idea looks like it may work, but can you imagine trying to put 1000 watts through that thing?
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