A bicycle of course. Well that’s what Cannondale reckon anyway, although sadly there’s a disappointing lack of afterburners or aerofoils on their new Concept Stealth bike, on show at Eurobike last week. Whatever, it is certainly different, and it does have some of the “edgy” design elements of both the Lamborghini Reventón and the Stealth fighter from which Cannondale’s designers took their inspiration. Well, it’s got a lot of edges, which to be fair is what Cannondale mean. The flat edges on the Stealth Fighter help it stay invisible to radar, we’re guessing that any radar invisibility benefits on the Cannondale are going to be spoilt by not-so-radar-invisible rider sitting on it, but you never know… 
Aside from the cutting edge (there I go again) frame the Concept Stealth also features some fairly eye-catching componentry for a flat bar commuter bike. The mono blade fork is something of a signature item for Cannondale, it features on many of their mountain bikes and on the BadBoy street bike, as do disc brakes, but the integrated stem and seat collar are pretty unique features – certainly on a bike of this type. The display bike at Eurobike was claimed to weigh a fairly feathery 8.6Kg (18.9lb) and it was a decent sized frame too. So it should probably give a Lambo a run for its money on city streets too. We look forward to riding one.
What do you get when you cross a stealth fighter with Lamborghini?
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I see quite a few MAAP items out in the Surrey Hills. The new shop has a cafe and they're from Melbourne so the coffee should be good: I'm looking forward to visiting.
@chrisonabike Mercedes was acceptable, but the second one (old Toyota people carrier/ex-taxi) was a prosecutable offence.
I wasn't saying that nor talking about people who say that. I said it was silly to claim that wearing a helmet indicates acceptance of dangerous driving and poor infrastructure. I choose to wear a helmet; I also regularly report dangerous driving to the police and correspond with councils and road authorities about ways infrastructure could be improved for cyclists. I rather doubt I'm the only helmet wearer who does so.
@JamieT (a pedant writes) she's a London Assembly member, not an MP.
@Rendel Harris ".....but the claim that wearing one is somehow to be accepting dangerous driving and poor infrastructure is silly." Not that silly. Demanding that cyclists wear a helmet is seen by many people as 'the answer' to cycling safety, so there's no need to put in infrastructure. The difference between infrastructure and helmets is that infrastructure works. Helmets are a distraction from what really works, and the more time we spend talking about them, the less time we spend on things that do work. Helmets should be consigned to the dustbin of history as a failed experiment, and we should cease even mentioning them.
@Mr Blackbird Hats off to George Hall My hat's not coming off- despite this touch of cycleway-washing, Hall still bears the Mark of Cain, until he repudiates his party altogether
Perhaps an article showing a) what is available in the uk as cargo bikes and) comments from real life scenarios from those already using bikes or cargo bikes as one gentleman has done in the comments. Perhaps road.cc could follow up with this. Even the London Assembly member said not every business should use cargo bikes but suggested a more nuanced approach suitable for certain trades or companies....
2 thoughts on “What do you get when you cross a stealth fighter with Lamborghini?”
I like it
That looks remarkable, like a TT bike at the front end. I am a huge fan of the heavily styled look and the enormous effort that’s gone into it. But surely this is a “pure” concept bike. No-one is actually going to want the minor performance benefits in an overly-expensive (NB not necessarily overpriced) commuting bike are they?
re: i like it
yes, the front end reminded me of the BMC Time Machine and the new Argon 18 TT bike. Be interesting to know whether this one is a goer – think I’ll ask. As to whether anybody would pay? S’pose that depends how high the price is, but I remember when Cannondale brought in the BadBoy Ultra a few years back, at what seemed an outrageous price at the time, they didn’t seem to have any trouble shifting them. And these days commuting bikes there is much more of a market for high end commuter bikes. Fair dos though the BadBoy Ultralite was a very versatile machine