Exclusive tech review: Rujano's Corratec bike

Rujano's Selle-Italia Corratec bike has been especially designed with him in mind and is custom built to fit his riding position perfectly. Thanks largely to intelligent, cutting edge design -- but perhaps owing just a little to the rider's own petite body -- the monocoque frame weighs a mere one gram, or roughly one hundredth of a King Size Galaxy bar.


Rujano demonstrates his newly-improved climbing position


Despite the obvious disadvantages on fast, flat stages, the US penny sized wheels ensure that the entire bike is so light that this problem is far outweighed by the increased climbing prowess it promises.


Wafer thin for increased aerodynamics


As well as the obvious benefits that accompany the size of the frame and wheels, Rujano's Corratec also contains the equipment at the forefront of cycling technologies. He's riding the latest Campagnolo three tooth chainset, still in development, which is poised to make previous compact chainsets redundant within the next three years.

To put it frankly, we want to worship at its tiny little wheels.

Or:

We're just being silly. The image is, of course, from occasional Derailed (Google-)advertiser Go-Velo-City, who distribute miniature cycling related things. If you want to buy a little man on a little bike and pretend that he's riding a Tour de Your Mantlepiece, we've provided the link at the end. But if they're advertising in that box to your right, click that instead of the link because that'll just work out better for all involved.

TOMORROW:
We post something amazing that was meant to go on here last Friday.

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Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

Things we hate so much we're not even going to link to them

  • Trust But Verify
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  • Assos

Our e-mail inbox isn't just for Japanese gambling promotions and the latest advances in penis enlargement chemistry, you know

What's the word "derailed" got to do with bikes anyway?

  • Err... bikes have things called derailleurs? Apart from track bikes, which don't.

If derailleurs evolved from fixies, how come there are still fixies?

  • Survival of the fixest.


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