What’s going on with that seatpost? Lotuscars and Hopetech reveal new Britishcycling track bike for the olympics... and it's pretty radical! cycling
Lotus Engineering and Hope Technology have unveiled the track bike that’ll be used by British athletes at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics – a radical-looking design with a HBT Paris Frame developed by Hope, a fork that’s said to be inspired by fighter jets, and a kinked seatpost with a hole in the centre. The second-generation Hope-Lotus bike also features a revised handlebar.
The British company says that its Chief Aerodynamicist Richard Hill – who was responsible for the design of the Lotus 108 Olympic track bike and 110 Tour de France bike in the 1990s – played a key role in both the Tokyo Olympic track bike and the 2024 Hope-Lotus Olympic model. “To guarantee lightness, the composite fork is crafted from the same high-grade carbon fibre and single-cure manufacturing process as the Lotus Evija hypercar. A combination of carbon fibre and 3D-printed metals is used to optimise aerodynamics, ergonomics, structural integrity and light-weighting.
The other eye-catching feature of the Hope-Lotus track bike is the seatpost. Rather than being straight, it first kinks backwards and then forwards. The key characteristic, though, is that it appears to be split with a large gap down the centre. This makes us think of the seat tube design of the Trek Madone SLR – which the US brand calls its IsoFlow design.
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