Oh, bike media.
Bike media, bike media, bike media.
It’s HILARIOUS when an evolving futuristic technology makes a mistake like this:
Yet where the hell is everyone when an entire company full of human beings makes a concerted effort to design a bike like this?
Really, is it any less ridiculous? I’d take that AI mutant bike any day, because not only does it have both rim AND disc brakes, but it also has an auxiliary cockpit behind the saddle, so if you mount a child seat then Junior has something to play with:
And again, AI is a new and evolving technology; it’s still learning! So what’s Canyon’s excuse? They foisted that stupid handlebar on the world and then abandoned it, leaving anyone unfortunate enough to have purchased it to fend for themselves on Reddit. And yet the bike media doesn’t turn on them, and neither do their customers–and now they’re putting the very same AI everyone’s laughing at inside their new bikes!
All I’m saying is the cycling world should get its own house in order before it starts laughing at stuff, especially at a time when 90% of new bikes look like AI-generated mistakes. And what’s more ridiculous: a bike with more than one handlebar, or this guy in a wind tunnel?
Speaking as an old guy with a beard, putting an old guy with a beard in a wind tunnel is like hiring a wealth management advisor to handle your $2,500 certificate of deposit.
And yes, I get it, we’re supposed to be abjectly afraid of AI. But you know what’s even scarier? Walmart. Because their bikes are getting…good?
That’s the Ozark Trail G.2 Rebel Drop Bar Gravel Bike, it sells for $648, and it’s basically the PRJCT GRVL bike, right down to the crabon fork and the Microshift Sword Black drivetrain:
Obviously as a bike dork I’d buy a used cylocross bike (with rim brakes!) instead of that Walmart thing, and obviously I’d tell any new cyclist looking for a garvel biek to buy one from an actual bike shop, or at least from an actual bike company, even if it costs a little more. All I’m saying is this seems like bad news for all the actual bike companies who are all making basically the same garvel biek.
Oh, and the Walmart bike also comes in an e-version with a motor, though I doubt it’s as fast as the latest monstrosity from Specialized:
Now that’s just obscene.