February 24, 2010
BERU F1 Systems’ Factor 001
What happens when F1 designers apply themselves to road bikes?
Without having to comply to the regulations of any particular cycling series, BERU was able to start from scratch and design the bike the way they best saw fit. The carbon fiber monocoque frame is painstakingly built according to the customer’s specifications and measurements and features carbon-ceramic brakes and an LCD touch-screen that displays biometrics and various other readings.
BERU will only produce a few hundred examples of the Factor 001, which may come down more to the time factor: each example takes six engineers a week to build.
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That’s going to be a heavy bike, even for $34K.
I’d rather have a Cervelo Project California, which sells for $9,600 and weighs 700g. Or a Guru Photon, tipping the scales at 690gr.
The disc brakes make sense on a touring bike or cyclocross, but not a road bike.
I’m happy to test one if you all want to find $34k to buy it.
Range, I go back and forth on the disc brake arguement. These days bikes are so light adding disc brakes might just put them above the minimum weight specs for the pro tour and add increases control and stopping power. So, if you’re going to spend 10k on a bike, why not disc brakes?