As cyclists we know the motivation that an inspiring training route, a beautiful day with perfect weather, and a bicycle you are in love with can provide. If you are lucky, you have all three. Training is a commitment.
Staying at a top level of fitness, one that matches your goals and expectations, requires a consistent level of commitment and action, no matter the weather, or the route. First, and most importantly, you should love your bike. It should inspire you to ride.
The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike is a ride-inspiring full carbon road bicycle that begs to be looked at as much as ridden. The Aero begins with a hand-made carbon fiber frame and that tips equally towards form and function, yet weighs less than a six-pack of beer.
Frame: Form and Function
The tapered head-tube of the ICAN Carbon AERO 007 is beautifully sculpted to the top and down-tubes with the centerlines of both frame tubes meeting ultimately in an atmosphere puncturing, Aerodynamic bulge that not only directs air flow, but is stunning to look at. One look at this bike and it will be living with you inside the house, not tucked away in the garage.
The 700C Series Carbon Fiber (T700) allows ICAN to design a tuned level of vertical compliance and lateral stiffness into each size frame, while maintaining the purposeful lines of the frame that serve our design goals for the rider.
The seat tube/seat stay junction is designed with an aerodynamic leading edge on the seat-tube, and the seat stays, that transitions into a matching profile in the seat-post.
All this is achieved in a design that amplifies the strength of this critical frame joint, and manages to incorporate an elegantly designed seat-post clamp, discreetly out of the way in the slack-air pocket created by the aerodynamics of this junction of tubes.
The seat-stays continue the aerodynamic profile down to the clean, functional rear drop-outs. They are designed with a nod towards torsional stiffness and road smoothing responsiveness only available with the use of carbon fiber’s infinite design capabilities.
While most carbon frames simply try to go as thin and light as they can manage, the ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike takes that minimalist approach to a new level of functionality by using the aero profile of the seat-stay tubes for both wind-slicing aerodynamic benefit, and structural integrity.
Heart and Soul
While the ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike excels in presenting a slim profile to the wind, the heart and soul of this design is anchored by a rock solid, torsionally stiff, and aerodynamic, Bottom-Bracket/Seat-Tube/Down-Tube junction.
The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike uses a super strong, light but stiff design to give the rider a sense of immediate power transfer in out-of-the-saddle efforts, or a comfortable ride sitting in with the pack on a group ride. And this bike does this with a superlight, super strong and stiff bottom bracket.
Aerodynamic Fork: Inspiring the Ride
The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Full-Carbon Road Fork handles its job up front with absolutely sublime ride characteristics that inspire confidence in the rider. Aerodynamic fork blades can sometimes create a ride that is wonderful in race situations, and unforgiving on training rides, and on the poorly maintained secondary roads we cyclists ride in search of less traffic and more open spaces.
The ICAN Aero Full-Carbon Road Fork was designed to work in harmony with the ICAN Carbon Aero 007 frame, providing a vertically compliant, road dampening ride quality, with the lateral/torsional stiffness that makes max efforts out of the saddle feel super responsive and inspiring.
In fact, most of what a rider “feels” about a bike is often a result of how a particular fork performs. After all, a fork and a front wheel are the first to encounter the road and send a message up through to the rider. The ICAN Aero Full-Carbon Road Fork offers an overall inspiring initial feel that make the ICAN Full Carbon Aero Road Bike ride like dream.
Hold On
The feel of the ICAN Aero Road Bike is further enhanced by ICAN’s full carbon drop handlebars and carbon stem which are no only comfortable with flat tops and ergonomic bends in the drops, but stiff and light. They also dampen the road vibrations, reducing overall rider fatigue.
In conjunction with the ICAN Carbon Seatpost and the SD005 Saddle, the rider contact points are comfortable and designed to allow for the optimum positioning of the rider on the bicycle. It is said that a great bicycle will disappear underneath the rider. The ICAN Aero Road Bike is one such bicycle.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: You Can Have it All
Why are aerodynamics so important to us and our bicycle design ethic? It is simple: Resistance = Velocity squared. That is a simple way to think of the Newtonian mechanics involved in an object moving through the atmosphere.
It is one reason we now have the industry-wide road bike standard setup involving brake cables and shift cables tucked away underneath handlebar tape. Once bikes were put in wind tunnels, it was obvious that the drag created by exposed cabling was significant.
It is also the reason we incorporated the cables and housing internally in the ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike. And it is a primary reason for the design of our Full-Carbon ICAN G3 Wheelset.
Fewer spokes and a wind-slicing carbon rim profile create a wheel-set that in terms of Mr. Newton’s physics, is very slippery in the wind. As your speed increases, the benefits of the wheelset shine.
They are stiff, strong and light. In the old-days you could pick two of those, but you could not have all three. With our leading edge carbon designs you can have all three, and a fourth quality: aerodynamics. And you can have it all in a road bike you can train on daily, and race on the weekends.
Putting it All Together: Love Your Ride
At the end of the day, a bicycle is just a lot of fancy plumbing without a killer set of wheels and tires. The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike, with ICAN Aero G3 Wheels dependable and high-performing Michelin Lithion tires, and a Shimano 105 parts Group is a bicycle you will fall in love with on your first ride, think about while you are at work, and rush home to saddle up and go ride in the evenings.
It is just the kind of bike to wake you up early on a Saturday morning and get you on a Century ride by dawn, and home before lunch-time; and do it again on Sunday. I will inspire you to ride more, reach beyond your goals, and look great doing it.
The bikes that live in our dreams should be the ones we keep in the garage, the spare bedroom, or our living room. Not the ones we leave on the pages of magazines and websites, only dreaming of them.
The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike is a Tour de France, Tour de Force machine that can make your cycling dreams, real. In short, The ICAN Carbon Aero 007 Road Bike is a bike you will love to ride.
It is a bike that will inspire your motivation to ride it as much as you can, support your commitment to train, to stay in top form, and to love every minute of time you put in on the saddle.
