Thirty years after Chris Boardman rode the Lotus Type 108 to victory, the bike's progenitor rides again at the Commonwealth Games in England.
When Hope Technology and Lotus Engineering ripped the cover off the Olympic-ready HB.T in 2019, nobody had ever seen a bike like it. Sure, in side profile, it looked fairly conventional. However, if you leaned in for a close look at the 3D printed titanium elements or simply got in front of it, the bikeBut if you didn’t know already, its predecessor exhibited a singularity on the level of a unicorn.
The design catapulted to success thanks in large part to a massively burdensome engineering effort. Imaginative concept engineering followed forced contours around a tight delivery timeline. And when the team finished it and brought it to the track on schedule, skeptics abounded. That was good, but the Lotus C-suite didn’t deem their pitch good enough to secure one key component: money for R&D.
They already knew Boardman would be the only rider to ever pedal the bike. That variable removed, they found it exhibited an amazing characteristic in laser-focused aero testing.
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