5 years from now

fish156

5 years from now, what are the bikes we're going to be riding like?

• Di3 - wireless shifting?
• Head-up display in your cycling glasses in addition to the cycling computer on your bars?
• I guess we'll still be waiting for a confirmed release date for Garmin Vector :roll:

What about in 50 years?

sungod

steel, with tubs

desweller

Well, one of the reasons I like bikes is their simplicity. I have nothing against electronic shifting, GPS and what-have-you, but hopefully I'll still be riding the heavy touring bike based on a cheapo hybrid that I'm riding now.

AchillesLeftKnee

fish156 wrote:

[*]Head-up display in your cycling glasses in addition to the cycling computer on your bars?

https://plus.google.com/+projectglass#+projectglass/posts
That one's a given, probably well within five years.

mfin

Wireless shifting will already be in working prototype stage now anyway.

(and Shitmano's version will be pig-ugly for sure too)

Cleat Eastwood

Bike chains made out of your own imagination. Each link is made from an obscure thought you had when you were 7.

team47b

Nice one Cleat

5 years from now they will have discovered a new form of carbon that doesn't melt in the rain :roll:

tlw1

I will be fatter and slower, but obviously I would still blame wiggle

BowtomePhil

Probably an invalid scooter

willhub

I'll be the next Lance Armstrong or Alberto Contadoor.

lawrences

wireless shifting lol. the potential for disaster is brilliant.

I would love to see the bottom of the range wireless sets, you shift gear and everyone you're riding with has the gears change.

markwhalebone

Shimpag?

springtide9

3D Printed Ti and CF parts, including frames and forks to custom specifications, while you wait

Maybe longer than 5 years, but 3D printing must be the future for custom manufacturing.

springtide9

markwhalebone wrote:

Shimpag?

... to take on SRAM ???

CiB

lawrences wrote:

wireless shifting lol. the potential for disaster is brilliant.

If it was thought-controlled wireless shifting, that would only add to the fun - halfway up a decent climb and your mind is thinking "don't change down yet. Don't change yet..." and the weak wireless signals get only the "change down" and execute a perfect change just when you least expect it. Crump. Crossbar? Meet these squishy fleshy things. Oilroit?

Surely eventually we will all be wearing silver foil suits and having dinner pills instead of faffing with cooking & so on, just like we've been promised since I were a boy? No?

5 years time: Bike frames are even more lurid in shape but Bromptons remain unchanged as do the people who ride them. Electronic gears are still too dear for most people and anyone who buys them is still just a big pansy show-off who doesn't merit having a set anyway yer big girl, contributors to newspaper stories involving cyclists are still insisting that cyclists should pay road tax or get off my roads, and Cav has just missed out on Olympic gold again, in Brazil. And I still can't get close to doing the commute in under the hour without either a good tailwind or aerobars.

rolf_f

Fly by wire steering - that's the future. You'll have no direct connection between bars and forks. Instead, the bikes brain will work out how much input you need based on your steering input and speed and your GPS position relative to the road you are on. They'll probably even be able to counter steer for you if they think that's the best way to take the corner....... It's going to be great!

Me, I'll be riding the bikes I own right now!

team47b

5 years, 5 years, FFS how old are you? That's not the future, don't you know that's about a week in old money!

alihisgreat

Titanium weave carbon? -> been used on the tub of the Pagani Huayra and apparently it helps the tub stay together under impact.

baldwin471

Indestructible inner tubes. Now that would be useful.

nickellis

A self cleaning chain, that also oils itself.

If Pilkington can make self cleaning glass panes, I can only hope and dream......