For those of you who follow my mostest amazing Twitter account (that can be found to the right of the screen), already heard the news. There are rumors and actual photos of a pro racer’s bike that show that BMC is going to release an endurance road bike. When I read the news I almost dropped my coffee (for future reference any time you read coffee on this website you must use a Bostonian accent in your head because that’s the way I wrote it).
Here’s the amazing photograph…
If you can read that last line, it says there is an incomplete web page. Holy shit, so I jumped on over that way so I could continue my amazing coverage of this breaking news. Guess what I found…
That’s right folks. BMC has taken it to the next level. They have “perfectly adapted” the saddle clamp to the frame concept. I wish every bike company would do that.
This news, so aptly brought to me by Bike Rumor, was so awesome I made the effort of reading the entire article. I smartly learned that they are currently working on a 29’r dirt styled riding device as well. Breaking news if I’ve ever read breaking news.
If you haven’t caught my sarcasm by now, I’m sorry. Next time I will try to lay it on a little thicker.
I personally think BMC bikes are sexy as hell. What I found humorous is the excitement stirred by a company releasing products that have realistically been around for a decade or more and then it being touted as cool or new. Bike Rumor isn’t the only bicycle related website that does this. I’m sure if you were to use the Google machines you would find plenty of sites with the same photos and basically the same article. And everyone was excited and prayed to the Swiss biking Gods to give thanks.
Bike news has become as boring as watching 24 hour news networks. There really isn’t enough real news to cover so the old news is recycled or they attempt to make news worthy stories out of mundane situations. I especially enjoy the news networks coverage of any damsel in distress. It just makes me laugh.
I guess when you try to improve on something that hasn’t significantly changed in over a century, you are bound to recycle some ideas. And then there will be people getting excited about companies doing things that others have already done. It may just be the way the cycling world works, it’s just one big cycle…
Out.