The Factor 001 is a bike epitomizing the latest in technology. There’s another thing that it epitomizes – over the freakin’ rooftop pricing! But the plus side first. BERU has been boasting of a super-bike for a while now. And it seems that Factor 001 would indeed see the light of the day; as a matter of fact, as early as the next week at the launch of the U.K. Science Museum’s free exhibition “Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world.” The Factor 001 has been constructed out of materials used in F1 cars and comes with GPS, radio transmitter, motorsport-grade sensors, all reporting to an on-board computer. Even with all that gadgetry, the bike is very lightweight, weighing less than 7kg. The Factor 001 has sensors incorporated in its carbon frame that take the ergonometric, biometric, physical force and environmental data and use it to analyze rider’s performance. All the “world’s first(s)” come at a price though, 20,000 GBP to be precise. It remains to be seen just how many buyers Factor 001 can muster at that price tag. Not many, I’d suppose.
Via: Gizmodo/Gizmag
