You saw it on road.cc first, but if you head along to next month’s Cycle Show you can see the new Van Nicholas Astraeus in the flesh. As we reported from Eurobike the Astraeus is the world’s first production hydro-formed titanium bike. Hydroforming the tubes means that Van Nicholas have been able to produce a bike with the sort of frame profiles never before seen in Titanium bike. The result is a bike that is both astonishingly stiff while still retaining the comfortable ride characteristics for which Ti bikes are known. This is a bike built to deliver your power to the back wheel as quickly as possible, when you get to the show check out the beefed up area behind the bottom bracket it’s designed to minimise any flexing of the chainstays. One for sprinters, climbers and anyone who likes a bit of raw acceleration. This year’s Cycle Show runs from the from the 10th -12th of October at Earls court in London. We will be there too, so come and say hello. road.cc users who book in advance at www.cycleshow.co.uk/STM (entering the code “STM” , so they know we sent you*) will get a fiver off the walk up on the day price (which is £14) giving you extra cash to spend in the retail zone. *To book by phone call 0844 848 0122 
See the Van Nicholas Astraeus at Cycle 2008
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Pedantically, that duck has two eyes. It's just that ducks' eyes are side-facing, so they can't both be towards you at once. You can just about see the bulge of the other eye, but it's hard to distinguish from the helmet strap. What should really be bothering you is the cow with two forwards-facing eyes.
Yup - had to. Forced to. At gunpoint. More? Where were the previous ones that these would be 'more' than?
@the little onion Doesn't seem like the most sensible place to be chassing them - can't see much along that stretch in the way of Tesco or Sainsbury's or the like that you might catch some patates in.
As soon as I see a poster with that wet brush stroke graphic I instantly zone out.
Halfords did something similar a few years ago, but instead of rechargeable it was powered from the pedal turning. They soon gave up due to the amount wet, dirt and salt that pedals are exposed to in winter. I will stick to pedal reflectors.
@thrawed then find a different route. I am sure youwill find plenty of off-road riding near you that can handle winter weather.
@Matt Page What makes you think I don't run mudguards? All mud guards do is stop it spraying up your back. It doesn't stop this....
@thrawed That is nothing a good set of mud guards and good winter tyres can't fix. The hardest bit is getting the clothing right, and Autumn is the hardest for that, I find. Riding through British muddy trails will make you a better rider, mentally and physically.
I think using AI is a cop out, surely there are better ways of designing posters... like using real images and real people... In the case of cycling clubs using AI why can't someone in the club design the poster/image? AI is getting out of control and if not controlled it will be the death of creative industries. It's up to us at ground root level to try to stem this
@Hollis Jones or none at all. Indeed quite possibly it would never have been solved (and without any witnesses you wonder how it would - tracing bits of the car?). Even if it had come to court there have been a fair few previous "we know you were driving, we know your car hit them" cases where no conviction was achieved. This one is pretty unusual.