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Commencal acidVideo: Eurobike faves – Commencal Acid
It goes without saying that when you're walking around the world's biggest bike show there is an awful lot of cycling eye candy on display so it takes something special to stop a posse of bike journos in their tracks – the Commencal Acid (that crazy Andorran sense of humour) is just that. This is my favourite bike from the show. In fact the more I've thought about it since the more I like it.
Commencal are a mountain bike brand, this may well have been the only road going bike on their stand, but if you're going to have one you might as well make it stand out. Aesthetics are important to Commencal as it says on their website:
"We love beautiful things, and our bikes are not just simple tubes of metal or carbon bonded together. They are the object of our passions!
Well, they certainly let their tubes do the talking with the Acid. What I love about this is it's simple, it's playful, and it also demonstrates a very high level of skill, and thought when it comes to bending a metal tube or two to make a bike frame. Clever and beautiful. Almost to beautiful to ride… almost.
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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Just been talking to Serge from Commencal and the word is that the Acid will be coming our way soon. We'll keep you updated.
Pah! It'd still be beautiful + that rear brake mount would surely lend itself to an internally routed cable to keep those clean lines. I'd run a front brake anyway. I don't see why all those bendy bits should compromise the handling- it's straight where it needs to be in terms of power transfer + that hidden brake bridge surely acts as an extra stiffener at the back. I'd give it a go
It would be handy for drying towels on in front of the radiator, but that is about as close to being out in public I would get on that contraption...
Here's an idea. Stick some brakes, proper handlebars (ie drops), and decent tyres on it and ride the bloody thing.
Now, what's it like then ?
awesome. I want one.
yeah substance shmubstance
Absolute victory of style over substance - but yes I want one too...