We found the best bike we could for £450 and now we're attempting to make it faster than a £10,000 superbike. Will a £200 budget be enough to do the trick?

00:00 Can we make a budget bike faster than a superbike?
00:20 Our £500 Boardman and top spec £10,000 Orbea
01:24 Baseline run on the Boardman
02:58 What modifications are we doing to the Boardman?
04:46 Baseline run on the Orbea
06:09 Bike modification issues…
07:18 Second Boardman run
08:35 Controlledenvironment testing in wind tunnel
09:20 The results!
11:13 What’s the takeaway?

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