The Lotus 108 and 110 are the bikes of the 90s. Jon Cannings talks to the main players in these iconic pieces of enginee | dG1fMVlwYk9xbXFsTmc
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - It was definitely a groundbreaking concept.
00:12 - Literally it popped out of the mold
00:14 on the day before I flew it down to Barcelona.
00:17 - Watching it actually happen was that eureka moment.
00:20 There was the right people involved,
00:21 the right ingredients for that particular project.
00:25 - All this time I've wanted to dive deeper
00:27 and now I'm gonna tell the definitive story
00:30 about what I think is the world's most iconic bikes.
00:33 And by the end of this film, you're gonna agree with me.
00:36 (upbeat music)
00:38 In this documentary, I'm talking to engineers,
00:46 designers, riders, and fellow admirers of Lotus bike.
00:50 - It's one of these moments in history
00:52 that you say there is a significant difference.
00:55 - It was surreal, it was just all coming together
00:57 at the right time in the right place.
01:00 - Aerodynamicist Richard Hill
01:01 was the man leading the charge in the tunnel.
01:03 - It was a psychological advantage,
01:05 it was a technological advantage,
01:08 and it was a physiological advantage.
01:09 It was all three together.
01:11 I'd gone from unemployed carpenter
01:15 to suddenly being an Olympic gold medalist.
01:18 History was happening in front of us.
01:20 - And so the Lotus 110 was born.
01:24 The same year as Chris Boardman turned pro,
01:26 the perfect candidate to show it off to the world.
01:29 - Everybody prepares for this monumental three-week race
01:33 in the month of July, and we prepared for seven minutes.
01:37 We just approached it like an Olympic pursuit,
01:40 and we put that in a professional world of cycling,
01:43 and the difference was very clear.
01:44 - Lotus can be very proud that they started that journey
01:49 and really pushed innovation of bikes
01:52 20, 30, 50 years later.
01:54 (upbeat music)
01:57 (upbeat music)
01:59 (upbeat music)
02:02 (upbeat music)
02:05 (dramatic music)
02:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]