Stebles Bikes: Carbon fibre bike with integrated mudguards now available to buy, and on display at London Bike Show

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If batman had a bicycle...

Don't worry - it looks way better in white: http://road.cc/content/tech-news/179223-stebles-bikes-launch-crowdfunding-unique-carbon-bike-integrated-mudguards

As good as it is, a Ultegra mechanical groupset is a little mean for a £6000 bike. Most other bikes for that kind of price come with a top of the range electronic groupset. 

So I guess the only way to replace a broken bottle cage is to buy a new bike.

This looks like what Count Dracula would ride... at night of course.. 

It looks like a bike that would have been ridden in The Future, in a film made in about 1958...

Do you get bar tape included at that price?

probably won't be fun cleaning it after a wet winter ride... wonder how much of a faff it is taking a wheel out?

I am picturing a scene where, after months of work in secret, the designer / builder revealed his / their creation to family and friends*.

Must have been a "Unique" reaction !

*Especially if they have invested in the project.

What ?
No integrated saddle bags or lights ? And what about fins ?
At least Pee Wee Herman's had these !

gopping and totally misunderstands the problems it's supposed to resolve and also fails to understand (or simply ignores) the very obvious downsides some of which are mentioned above.

The type of people to buy this will be the ones that jizzed over a DeLorean.

Maybe in 40 years time they might get some of their money back if it hasn't melted whilst sitting in the sun whilst hung up because no self respecting human being would ever be seen dead riding that, shirely?

Bicycles are supposed to be beautiful and they invariably are, even rusty old wrecks from the 19th century have the most incurable charm.

This is not a bike. It is the most ugly piece of junk I have ever seen with 2 wheels. I don't know how much someone was paid to design it, but however much it was it was to much. Hopefully it will disappear without trace and nobody will be forced to endure such ugliness ever again - the very thought of encountering one in real life makes me feel like throwing up.

This bike's a real beauty and a perfect audaxing machine to boot. Well done builder. I can see thie being only the beginning before many other companies jump on the bandwagon with their own designs.

Only problem I can see is this won't be much of an international tourer as I like to remove my mudguards to fit in the box but for commutes and national audaxes this is a winner.

OMG!

Those mudguards are terribly looking, and that carbon frame exactly looks like noname chinese carbon frames 

Not every day you see a £6k bike badly photographed against a bedsheet.

We're missing the point here. It's better to miss the marketing brief by a mile than by a small margin. Mr Stebles  deserves his rightful place in the pantheon of bad bike design heroes. I mean just look at the fully integrated carbon fibre bottle cage. Though, logically a fully weatherproofed bike should also have a fully enclosed integrated chain case of course. One for the suggestions box. 

About those lugs.... they remind me of vacuum cleaner attachments. I feel like you could perhaps dismantle it for travel, or quickly replace the front end with a full suspension fork.

Very special indeed. 

Wot no rear mudflap? That won't do.

Integrated mudguards, but separate lugs and tubes?

I would be interested to see what happens when a stick flicks up into the spokes.  Most normal mudguards will have a detachable/breakable stay.

I am also not a fan of the lugs.

It might, just might, look better painted than as raw carbon. Can't help but think its a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. Much like carbon fibre mudguards which look bling but aren't actually much lighter than standard guards and are less easy to fettle.

Given the choice between this and the 3T Strada (for e.g.) I know I'd rather go fast and get wet, and I have 'guards on all my bikes

Bet it's a bugger to ride in crosswinds.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that 

Some ideas are just bad ideas. 

No matter how good it works, that is an ugly piece of design.