fUCI

Robert Egger is Specialized Bicycles’ creative director, and designed the “fUCI” as a radical alternative to traditional racing bicycles. “fUCI” aims a middle finger at bicycling’s governing sports body, the UCI, breaking all its rules with its streamlining, asymmetric wheels, and especially the electric boost motor beneath the chassis. The bicycle world is slowly adapting to EVs, regardless that electric mountain bikes are the biggest-selling category in the industry, and “fUCI” presents a gorgeous ‘what if’ for bicyclists who want to go crazy fast.

“Going from working with a lot of rules to no rules is really intoxicating. No one can tell me what to do. For me personally, it’s actually why I do a lot of these bikes. Because I can just do whatever the fuck I want, right? It’s important to be given that freedom to do whatever you want, where no one can say, ‘Hey, you can’t do that!’ We need that as creative people — to do things that are innately ours and innately different than what the confinements tell us to do.” – Robert Egger