Cube have updated their road bike range for 2009 and there’s now a couple of models above the previously top-of-the-range Litening. The Carbon Litening SLR is produced using a twin-mold process, which neither the Cube boys nor the hastily-translated Cube brochure were adequately able to explain, save for the fact that it’s some kind of quality control process that’s supposed to iron out weak spots in the carbon. Anyhow, the bike is available in builds from £2799 to £5499, though only the top spec gets the integrated seat tube as pictured, they lop it off for the rest.
Also new is the Titanium Litening Super, which comes in 3/2.5 and 6/4 flavours. It’s pretty rare to see a full 6/4 bike, especially one with triple butted stays and a main frame that’s made from folded sheets that are welded so neatly that it’s almost impossible to see the join. Both of the frames are made by Ti-masters Linsky and the Super Record equipped 6/4 bike weighs in at a svelte 6.6kg, we’re told – we couldn’t weigh it as it was zip tied to the stand to stop johnny consumer picking it up and scratching the seatstay on the wing nut through the crank! At £2499 the 3/2.5 bike is, if not exactly cheap, then reasonable for a hand-worked Ti bike. There’s nothing reasonable at all about about the 6/4 Litening Super’s £7999 price tag, which reflects just how hard it is to build a whole bike out of the harder metal.
Cube Litening Super & SLR
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@kingleo I'm sure they may be but Lime's UK profits last year were around £4M; a standard 27-bike docking station costs around £100,000 installed and they have around 50,000 bikes in the capital. £185M would be a big ask for a £4M p.a. operation, even if you could find 1800+ suitable sites, which would be next to impossible.
@belugabob At a certain Scottish branch that shall remain nameless just in case any of Premier's brass are reading we turned up shattered with filthy bikes, when we asked the manager if there was somewhere we could clean them he said, "Ach it's just mud, it'll hoover off in the morning, up ye go!"
@Rendel Harris, I would have thought that the e-bike companies' owners are mega rich; they can afford to put lots of e-bike docks in place. The problem is that they are an outstanding business success; they are too successful, from nothing a few years ago to what we see now.
With reference to a hotel where " You can take your bike right into your room" ... Premier Inn have been doing this for years and therefore have had lots of our custom, on multi-day trips. Not once has any member of staff batted an eyelid - in fact, on one occasion we asked if they had paper towels to clean our bikes before we took them inside, and they shrugged then gave us 2 enormous fluffy white bath towels (needless to say, they weren't white for long.
I thought the 5 highlights show was alright, and for the first time there was no strange missing shows, for the tour or vuelta, which there was when it was on dmax or quest. I did cough up for the month of July, which I will do again next year, I always take off the week of my birthday so I want full day coverage on my hols.
@cmedred I can't find anything online with the name of the suspect or about her being charged - do Canadian police maybe have the same rules as the UK where only age and gender is released until a charge is preferred? Admittedly four months seems a long time between arrest and charge but there can be legitimate reasons for that.
"Last January, a discovery+ subscription to watch Eurosport’s cycling coverage, including all three Grand Tours and major races, cost £6.99." £6.99 a month, surely? The TNT price hike is bad enough as it is, there's no need to exaggerate it.
Indeed, the dim americans who control so much sports coverage just don't get that 'more' is not always 'better'. There's a limit to how many hours a day even fanatics can watch any sport yet TNT continue to spout that Eurosport at £8/mth didn't include crap like fighting, football, 'American whatever' bow provided for "only" £32 with the bonus of endless idiotic adverts. Well , Scottie, say bye bye to a few million other niche sport fans! Phew, and relax!!!sorry for the rant
@Rendel Harris Theoretically, you have to do that (take a photo and upload it to an app) with Dott and Voi as well, and probably all the operators. In practice, the operators don't have (won't pay for) enough staff to check every photo, and whatever algorithms they have to check the photos are inefficient. It's just possible Lime, uniquely, are properly checking and enforcing all photos; but I find it unlikely, from what I say of other operators and from having spoken to some of their employees.
@chrisonabike Obviously there needs to be a new website called applicabletobothroadandoffroad.cc for this type of content.

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Limited edition lightweights
I saw this cube bike at the show on Saturday. The limited cube lightweights are amazing.Does anyone know if you can buy them without buying a cube bike?
re: Limited edition Lightweights
Well you can certainly get the Ventoux wheels – I never asked any of the Cube guys what was different about them from “standard” Lightweights? Normal Ventoux wheels have a rider weight limit anyway – so you wouldn’t think they’d be getting any lighter. My guess is that the “limited edition” bit refers to the finish.
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I would imagine that if
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I would imagine that if you were to contact CarbonSports in Germany then they are able to produce the wheels in that Paintscheme for you.
the bikes did look fantastic.