Comments on: FABIKE Kickstarter

By: Fabio

Fabio — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:24:02 +0000

Hi guys, here is Fabio, the creator of the FABIKE project.

First of all thanks for your comments, even if they are not always positive still denote an interest and they are giving important insights.

What I would say is that the bicycle market is quite alive, especially in the urban environment, and the cyclists are becoming more and more demanding.
We do not think we have the perfect product, and to create that was not our aim. The bicycle that will satisfy everybody do not exist and it will never exist.
Our aim, since the beginning, was to give in one single high-end solution more possibilities, and we really think we succeeded in that.
It doesn’t mean that everybody will like and will be willing to have our bike (we don’t even hope in that), it just means that this is introducing on the market a new, DIFFERENT, product. Will be then people to decide if this is fulfilling their need or not.

Keep fallowing the project, there will be soon new contents and details.

All the best,
Fabio

By: Sloppyjoe

Sloppyjoe — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:38:20 +0000

I’m not buying anything about this. Essentially the rear hub is a cassette with a fixed side. That’s cool I guess, but to change it you still need a chain whip and a lockring tool. I don’t see a huge advantage to that. Next, a carbon practical city bike? I would want something a bit tougher if I was to commute hardcore on this. I guess I like to bunny hop my bikes and not have to worry about them so I ride steel bikes. I guess its neat that it has carbon bullhorn bars, how unique, especially with that never-before-seen brake lever design and a bar end shifter….. Oh, I almost forgot about that super custom crankset too that totally isn’t a BB30 road crankset with a track ring on it! Maybe I’m just drinking the Haterade today but this doesn’t seem practical or as cutting edge as the video makes it look. Sorry but I will stick to my durable, reliable, already versatile steel bikes!

By: Doug M.

Doug M. — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:11:26 +0000

had cross brake levers on a bullhorn bar once – it sucked.

By: Jason McCay

Jason McCay — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:04:57 +0000

Some great innovations, especially with the dropouts, but $3000? I wouldn’t think there would be a big market at that price point. If I were looking to buy one of these “boutique” commuter bikes, I’d be more interested in something like Mission Bicycle’s Sutro, which also has multiple configurations, and is a lot more reasonable at $1200.