Comments on: Is this bike made from spider webs?

It's a bike that's made from a few really long strands of carbon fiber. It doesn't weigh much--and it definitely turns heads.
Photos: Weaving Arantix bikes by hand

[Dachi]

Always Mountain Bikes

They spend 300 hours to build a $12,000 2.7 lb frame, only to bolt on a 10 lb front suspension onto it.

This is a bit like fitting a Bugatti Veyron with a snow plow.

[cmadrigal]

of course mountain bikes

MTBs are cool... ;)

really..suspension fork now a days are really light...so your heavy fork argument doesn't really hold...

road bikes are already way lighter than UCI allows anyway :-P

[t-o-d-d]

Impractical

Since mountain biking is kind of a dirty sport, I imagine keeping
this bike clean would be a real pain.

[rnieves1977]

i concur

that was exactly what i was thinking... That'd be a mission

[Im-Not-TED]

Another Environmental Hazard set free on the planet

Carbon tubes are nasty little man-made inventions that will never breakdown in the environment. This is just more crap to pollute the planet. The only way to stop the kind of pollution is to boycott the junk. Do not buy this environmental hazard.

[dcase99]

umm huh?

So what about the aluminum, titanium, stainless steel etc bikes?

[Mark Molloy]

Carbon Fixing

Hey isn't the fact that the process takes carbon out of the cycle and fixes it so that it doesn't breakdown to CO2 a good thing?

[feranick]

evidence?

I am sure you have plenty of evidence in support to your statement. I would be more than eager to hear them, since your post sounds SO scientifically sound...

[QuadFather]

Come now ...

I *heart* global warming.

[miniwas]

Price

11k There are lots of bikes now in that price and quite a few that are 20k.

[stlwest]

I will pay that.....

For a car....

Too bad auto manufacturers have to be forced into inovating....

[Delta 7 Sports]

Arantix by Delta 7 Sports

The Arantix is a extremely strong high performance mountain bike. Isolates impact and is a real attention grabber. Riding the bike first hand is a must.