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Sea Otter Classic: Brain scans, custom paint and more new bikes

Sea Otter Classic: Brain scans, custom paint and more new bikes

The sun-soaked bike festival that is the Sea Otter Classic is now in full swing, with the racing well underway and the expo beaming with the hottest tech in cycling right now. 

We’ve already brought you highlights from day one, showcasing Classified’s push into mountain biking, strange garage door hacks, new tech from Selle Italia and more, and now it’s time to round up everything we saw on day two. 

Today’s highlights include Josh getting an EEG brain scan, a stunning custom-painted Santa Cruz Stigmata, positive news out of Saris, a wild aero oversized pulley system from Kogel, and a look at the road bike that AG2R-Citroen will be using next season. 

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

Outride, the charity set up by Specialized founder Mike Sinyard, is working with researchers with five- and 15-point brain scanning devices that measure electrical activity at various points around the head.  (Image credit: Josh Croxton)

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

The purpose is to showcase how cycling – and also more broadly exercise and getting outside – can help with mood. The research has already concluded that there’s a correlation between the two, confirming what many of us already know, but the aim is to use the technology to quantify which areas of the brain respond in different ways to different types of exercise. (Image credit: Josh Croxton)

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

 By taking a baseline test prior to exercise, and then another after a ride, and accompanying those two datasets with feedback from the rider and an overview of the ride they’ve just done, researchers are able to analyse how an individual responds to different types of stimulus. Repeat that process over a number of rides, and a picture can be gathered of the individual. In theory, this information could be used to create a training plan of workouts that aren’t targeting the physiological adaptations, but the mental ones instead, helping to tackle mental health problems such as depression or anxiety.   (Image credit: Josh Croxton)

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

Move over CeramicSpeed, Kogel has entered the aero, shrouded oversized pulley wheel space (Image credit: Josh Croxton)

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

Amusingly, there’s no data to back up whether or not it’s actually faster. Gustav Gullholm (more widely known as Dangerholm on social media), maker of some wild custom bikes with Kogel components, said “do we know for a fact that it’s a lot faster and more aero? No. Does it look absolutely incredible? Yes. 
You can’t fault his honesty.
(Image credit: Josh Croxton)

Sea Otter Classic tech highlights

British brand Stashed are also here with a neat bike storage idea. The rail…

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