[elil17]

It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle

(That's pretty normal for a car company - many car brands have a lifestyle department).

[ErroneousBosh]

I was just thinking, I'm surprised they haven't started making ludicrously expensive road bikes with like 9-spoke wheels and oval carbon-fibre frame tubes, and not just bluetooth gears but brakes too because it saves a gram off the frame weight.

The overlap between Tesla arseholes and roadie arseholes is probably considerable.

No, Preston, the yellow lambswool jumper that cost as much as a second-hand Fiat is not making you faster. Take it off, you look like a tit.

[elil17]

I view roadies as prototypically moderate/liberal - I don't know anyone who owns a Tesla and bikes

[ErroneousBosh]

All the roadies round here are at best Lib Dem and often Reform or Alba types.

There's a guy in my town who makes a point of deliberately riding his bike *at* cars to prove some sort of a point about how dangerous cars are for bikes, because they should be able to stop if he swerves into oncoming traffic with a metre clearance. Same guy is also vehemently opposed to spending "his" taxes on sports grounds, playgrounds, or improving walking and cycling infrastructure because everyone should be riding racing bikes on the road.

One day he's going to get a physics lesson he'll remember for the rest of his life.

[Ekaros]

They really should go and buy out Reevo. Or rebrand their bikes. E-Bikes with perfect futuristic design (almost non-functional). Would be right up their alley.

[ErroneousBosh]

I would love a Reevo, they're so shit :-D

But then I would also import a Pontiac Aztek and park it beside a Fiat Multipla.

It's almost like replacing one pair of small low-friction bearings with 40 or so of them is a bad idea.

[foco_tubi]

There's already more than a few brands which have the douche chills roadie market cornered, Factor and Pinarello come to mind

[ErroneousBosh]

There aren't many Pinarellos around here but they all seem to be ridden by bad-tempered Tesco Value Peter Capaldi-looking guys with cycling clothes that cost more than my Range Rover (which granted was 250 quid).

They look great but I'm faster on my Commençal and probably more comfortable too.