Exclusive tech review – Rujano’s Corratec bike [May 2006]
Rujano’s Selle-Italia Corratec bike has been especially designed with him in mind and is custom built to fit his riding position perfectly. Thanks largely to intelligent, cutting edge design — but perhaps owing just a little to the rider’s own petite body — the monocoque frame weighs a mere one gram, or roughly one hundredth of a King Size Galaxy bar.
Rujano demonstrates his newly-improved climbing position
Despite the obvious disadvantages on fast, flat stages, the US penny sized wheels ensure that the entire bike is so light that this problem is far outweighed by the increased climbing prowess it promises.
Wafer thin for improved aerodynamics
As well as the obvious benefits that accompany the size of the frame and wheels, Rujano’s Corratec also contains the equipment at the forefront of cycling technologies. He’s riding the latest Campagnolo three tooth chainset, still in development, which is poised to make previous compact chainsets redundant within the next three years.
To put it frankly, we want to worship at its tiny little wheels.
We’re just being silly. The image is, of course, from occasional Derailed advertiser Go-Velo-City, who distribute miniature cycling related things. If you want to buy a little man on a little bike and pretend that he’s riding a Tour de Your Mantlepiece, we’ve provided the link at the end. But if they’re advertising in that box to your right, click that instead of the link because that’ll just work out better for all involved.
[Editor’s note in 2019: this company doesn’t exist anymore. Buy a tiny man from somewhere else.]