[quote author="winex"]Wow! $30k for a bike!
Peter, I'm curious, is this something that is designed for the Olympics and/or Tour de France? Or is it just something to help unburden people who have too much money?
I'm also interested in the software for the bike. Do you have any good sources of information?[/quote]
Good questions winex, you can go to their Homepage at
http://www.factor001.com/.
I should actually go back and edit the price, after a cursory google search I see the price is ?25000 !!! So that's way more than $30K...and if you want one act now because they're only gonna make 300 of them!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/5355426/BERU-Factor-001-review.html
It's not meant to be a Tour de France Bike it's more of a training Bike/Tool so you can Plug it into your Laptop when you get home and get the history of your power output, heartrate, elevation, wind speed etc etc...
You can do exactly the same thing with a $500 Garmin 705 which are quite amazing...
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=10885
With the 705 you can input a turn-by-turn colored display, when you get Home, plug it into your Laptop and a little red dot will appear along with the Highlighted route you have just ridden and give all kinds of info and it's integrated into Googlemaps plus it will show your elevations, heartrate (It's fun to watch the heartrate go up with the elevation) and the wind speed is taken from the closest Airport...
You can then publish the data on their site so others can download the route and of course you can download routes posted by other Riders...
You can also Race yourself on subsequent rides to see how you're improving.
Oh, and when you get the Bike, don't be a cheapskate, throw some $15,000 Wheels on it from Lew Racing...