Found: Speedvagen Cycling Team’s New Truck Takes Victory All the Way to the Bank

Maybe more like GPM…

That is SaWeet!

when I saw it in the lot I thought Oakley had come to the race…lame.

Or electric. Plenty of room for batteries.
Or they could bring this instead 2-3 cars or an equally guzzling motorhome.

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Its a armored truck carrying gold bikes why does it matter, its bad ass.
Besides cross racing was never meant to be environmentally friendly, it is meant to be fun and silly, just enjoy that it has actually caught on and become more fun to be a part of and watch.
Commuting is environmentally friendly, racing is not.

The sun rises and sets. There are haters on the Internets.

As others have said, the cargo area in the truck carries multiple (3-4) cars worth of bikes/ tools. This last race
Weekend, our team used one car and one
Armored truck where we would have used 4 cars in the past. Couple that with 12mpg and we’re not lookin too terribly wasteful.

And if folks want to point fingers, how many people drive solo to a race? How do those numbers pan out?

Anyway this is all a little bit beside the point. This truck has been a pipe dream for us in The Vanilla Workshop for many years and to finally bring in to fruition has us all giddy. It is deeply satisfying when the kid in you, who gets excited about impossible projects like this can get together with the adult In you who has the skill and experience and make this kind of thing happen. Does it make sense? Is it rational? No. Are there more important things than being pragmatic? We at Vanilla think there are.

-Sacha

Yeah… All I see is a pretty sweet bike vault for someone who knows how to do it.

Yeah a Prius would be waaay better…

I bet the Greenies in Portland love that thing…..Portland is a little too left. Cheers

OK, a little math to settle this. If this thing gets 12 mpg and carries 4 people, it will use about .73 gallons of fuel per person to get to a race 35 miles away. A compact getting 30 mpg and carrying one person will use 1.17 gallons. In a prius at 45 mpg, you’re talking .78 gallons. So unless you’re carpooling in a prius, stop pointing fingers. Sweet ride Sacha!