11380 - Road Bike

[R0Sch]

Next LEGO lifestyle display piece releasing June 1st will be a giant Road Bike with some interesting Technic pieces.

 

[howitzer]

Funny that there's something that seems to represent a derailleur, but it's static and there's just a single sprocket in the rear so no changing of gears. I'm sure a proper (functioning) derailleur is beyond what's possible with Lego but that being the case I'd have designed this bike to represent a belt-driven transmission with internal gear hub. Or just make it a proper single-speed if that's also too hard to do.

Other than that it looks nice and it's nice to finally see a proper Lego bike set released, considering that beside Lego bikes are practically the only place where normal people can easily see and feel a mechanical transmission in action in real life.

[Timewhatistime]

The removable rear light is a great play feature. I can easily imagine the proud owner of the bike presenting to his amazed guests that this seven-piece-build can actually be detached.

Once impregnable borders between model and real life increasingly vanish thanks to TLG's ingenuity.

Edited 23 hours ago by Timewhatistime

[R0Sch]

5 minutes ago, Timewhatistime said:

The removable rear light is a great play feature. I can easily imagine the proud owner of the bike presenting to his amazed guests that this seven-piece-build can actually be detached.

Once impregnable borders between model and real life increasingly vanish thanks to TLG's ingenuity.

I find it funnier that there is no front light, just like Race Bike drivers do irl too.

[JunkstyleGio]

This is very interesting. The new parts for the wheel look nice, but let's wait how wobbly this is going to be. 

[gyenesvi]

The spokes are the most interesting parts for me, I still can't really make out how they are fixed to the wheel hubs. Is it just a half pin? What allows the spokes to be tilted? Just the natural play in the frictionless parts? The end of those spokes seem to be half stud wide, it could even be a proper 11L link with towball sockets, like the 6/8 L links. Now that would be really awesome! But I'm afraid that they miss this opportunity as well..

Also, the rim sections seem to be a single piece, not two halves for the two sides, and the spokes are attached from one side, not in between two halves, as previously speculated.

Edited 21 hours ago by gyenesvi

[R0Sch]

Just grey half pins with friction in dbg. They are thin and flexible enough. You can see it at the front wheel details.

[Auroralampinen]

Ok, i have to say the proportions are a little bit wanky. Espessialy the handlebars are slightly too thin and the seat is slightly too small and the brake levers/gearbox shifters are slightly too bulky. I have a pelago silvo which handlebars were changed to this style and the pelago is a gravel bike and if you are curious what are the differences between this and the gravel bike here are the differences:). 

Road bikes are usually more lighter and slightly more aerodynamic compared to gravel bikes. Thought pelago silvo is really light weight. But special thing with pelago is that they use steel frame. No aluminium to be seen here:). 

Road bikes are mostly/mainly made of carbon fibre thought some gravel bikes are too made from carbon fibre. 

Road and gravel bikes uses the same handlebars. But my silvo was all roader gravel bike and all roader gravel bikes have straight bars not drop bars and my silvo did have bullmoose. Which i recently changed to drop bar. For better ergonomics. 

Road bikes have much narrower and sleeker tires than gravel bike. This is the main and the biggest differencie factor between road and the gravel bike. Road bikes are only combatible with small thin wheels. Unlike gravel bike which uses much beefier knobbier off road tires. But can also use road bike tires:). 

So in short. Gravel bike can work as an road bike. But there are differences at weight and aerodymanics. But main princible is almost the same. But Unlike the road bike. Gravel bikes are usually more versatile for every day riding and hauling goods from the grocery store. I don't have a car or license and pelago silvo is soo great handeling the goods and carrying a lot of cargo. Yes, silvo/bike does have it's limits. But i don't haul massive job site sement mixers or fridges or massive load of bricks to construction site every day or at all so my life with only bike and public transport is doable and it's really fun:). 

But over all the lego road bike is a decent model and does look great. But some areas do show the shortcomings:). 

[howitzer]

3 hours ago, R0Sch said:

I find it funnier that there is no front light, just like Race Bike drivers do irl too.

It doesn't represent light, it represents reflector. Road bikes commonly have a rear reflector but no lights.

[Lyichir]

Brickset's article about the reveal has a partly disassembled picture that shows off more of the parts in isolation, including the gear, wheel segments, and tire: 

[R0Sch]

Official page is up: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/road-bike-11380

[R0Sch]

New parts:
64T spur gear in lbg (11L dia)
20T spur gear with ratcheting hole in dbg
11L links with pin holes (spokes) in pearl dg
Arch rim segments with pin 2 axle holes in pearl dg (12x)
30L (240mm x ~15mm) Tire racing tread (2x)

Recolors:
Chain Link in silver
Technic Gear Shifter with Axle Hole in dbg

Edited 13 hours ago by R0Sch

[danth]

2 hours ago, R0Sch said:

11L links with pin holes (spokes) in pearl dg
Arch rim segments with pin hole in pearl dg (12x)
30L (240mm x ~15mm) Tire racing tread (2x)

Cool. Confirms what most had guessed about the wheel assemblies. 

Looking forward to the inevitable New Elementary article.

[aeh5040]

I might be wrong but it looks to me as if the holes at the end of the spokes are slightly angled to allow for the offset - look at the shadows on the table. If so, it shows nice attention to detail, but it will limit their usefulness for anything else.

Very excited about the gear and the wheel in any case!

Edited 11 hours ago by aeh5040