Storck debuted their 2009 road lineup at Eurobike, as ever they had light bikes and stiff bikes, they also came armed with bold claims, and some intriguing looking components. 
So, is the new Storck Fascenario 0.17 IS the lightest and most rigid bike in the world? Storck certainly think so, that’s the bold claim they make in their publicity for their 2009 lineup. They also call it "The Bugatti" of bicycles. They think it’s quite good then. The Fascenario is made from "ultra exotic" 2K carbon fibre weave, and Storck are only making 100 a year "for the truly discriminating buyer". In fact, they say "Owning this bike guarantees that you will always have the very best bike in your group – by a mile." Normally we’d mock such teutonic certaintly but the problem with Storck is there’s always the possibility that they’re right. 
Which brings us on to the new Fenomalist, and the question "are you good enough to ride this bike?". Storck’s new racing frame is designed to put the racer in full control they say. The frame is made from uni-directional high modulus carbon and the design combines elements of the Absolutist and the Fascenario which, say Storck, has resulted in a bike with an unbelieveable stiffness to weight ratio. 
According to Storck, "The Fenomalist will find whatever talent, strength and stamina you have inside you…" Ulp, and then what? Then you’d better make sure you’ve got some or the Fenomalist is going to want some answers seems to be the gist from Storck. "We only recommend this bike to people who know how to ride fast." You have been warned. All that makes the Absolutist 1.0 seem all cute and cuddly by comparison, this is Storck’s "budget" performance model constructed from uni-directional carbon fibre. The accent here is on a smooth riding allied to precise handling. The Absolutist features a new monostay designed, say Storck, to be both stiffer and lighter and the headtube which transistions from 11/4in to 1 1/8 is claimed to add even more rigidity and to improve handling. The 1.0’s Stilleto Aero fork is designed to work "in harmony with the 1 1/4 lower bearing" 
There is always plenty to catch the eye on the Storck stand at Eurobike, this year our eyes were on the Fenomalist, and not just on the bike itself but also some of the components – first to catch our eye was the Storck branded, carbon shelled rear mech. It looks like the sort of creation that the German Carbon Group might come up with, and Storck weren’t making any great fuss about it either… so maybe a little signal of future directions that Storck might be exploring. The brakes on the Fenomalist would seem to back this up, they too were Storck branded, and according to the company are prototypes made for them by Token. Will we see them on future production machines? Watch this space. 
Lots more Storck pics from Eurobike
Storck are available in the UK from Posh Bikes
Storck 2009 road lineup: Lighter, stiffer, faster, stronger… you’ll believe a man can fly… etc, etc
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I only get punishment passes when Im riding close to the gutter usually when there's a painted farcility!
I reckon you should go for some patriarchal system - you might grow to like it and I reckon it would be popular with lots of men who seem to feel hard-done by. Perhaps you could institute a holy sacrament which would allow you to circumvent local drugs legislation, or at least get some tax exemptions (coffee?). Anyway - we all love a good protected-characteristic-fight - today misogyny versus religious discrimination!
@This Wreckage I never realised it wasn't misogyny if it was based on religion, I wonder what else I will be able to get away with once I found my own religion!
"Landcross Road is now like a rat run, cars bomb through there. Surprised that there hasn’t been a smash there or somebody hasn’t been knocked down yet." Is that a vote for a modal filter there? Or - better - seeing how this could be fitted into a broader pattern of LTNs for residents? Or even starting a conversation on what they expect from travel locally / regionally and how could that be delivered. If the answer is - predictably - "like now but driving is more convenient" how much is that *really* going to cost / affect them going forward? Spoiler - they might well get lucky and have a few more years of "help for the hard- pressed motorist". (Particularly through the influence of Reform moving the conversation at a national level). But with more people here, more bills from people living longer (and all the other changes, the wars we're paying for...) the *real* costs of mass motoring may come back to bite pretty soon.
Scrapbook or it didn't happen?
This make me think of the early days of the bicycle - European countries which at the time still had prescriptive and quite restrictive views of female roles and appropriate behaviour and there were certainly outpouring of concern about the idea of women cycling. (Although I believe there was more acceptance of the zoo of "wheeled self-propelled contraptions" of the Victorian era). And ... maybe they were right in that perhaps this did lead (eventually) to some social liberalisation / young people mixing? Also thinking about an example the other way where NGOs working to help people have provided bicycles to eg. assist women bringing produce to market, only to find that these are all appropriated by men. (Perhaps a bit like "the man drives the car" which can still be seen to some extent in the UK). Of note is that Dutch women on average make more cycle trips than men. That's nothing to do with ebikes, but the efforts made (infra and built environment) to make driving not be the default for shorter trips. Plus women still do more of the admin / (child)care than men there.
Even better, there's a 4 hour rolling road block on this afternoon as the carnival parade travels through the town. Those on social media complaining about this work have known about it for months and despite what they may claim, they are not the silent majority but a vocal minority.
Indeed - and before *that* Abellio who had the franchise for Scotrail had bikes ("Bike and Go") at (a few) stations. At the time I didn't understand this, not being cognizant of the Dutch OV Fiets system which presumably this was based on. Unfortunately I don't think many others understood it either. Given the small numbers of people braving Scotland's unfriendly and inconvenient cycling environments it was a case of "too soon for the location". Didn't help that these were unpowered public hire bikes (so robust and heavy * ) and some of the places they were offered are hilly. Plus there's the UK expectation of people cycling on the road accelerating like a motor vehicle and flowing with the traffic. * Ones I tried were something like the Batavus Personal bike with all the trimmings, racks etc. They had been sensibly given them a large number of gears (7) for a hire bike and who knows what you could carry. But even just carrying me they were ponderous.
Yes, clearly it would have been preferable for him never to have ridden a bike and driven everywhere, then he could have ended up an obese, bitter and spiteful specimen stuffing his face with crisps and fizzy pop sitting in front of his keyboard in mummy's basement leaving stupid comments on other people's obituaries. That would have been a much better use of a life.
"The Voi bikes have been much more successful than their predecessor, the Just Eat Cycles run by Serco which ended in 2021." The predecessor to VOI bikes in Edinburgh was not - as your version says - Voi bikes.