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Bikes could soon use AI to Improve Performance

Advanced head unit could adjust seatpost, suspension and saddle using Artificial Intelligence

(Image credit: Shimano

Image Credit: Shimano

Shimano have recently filed a new patent that uses machine learning to adjust the geometry of a bike in real-time.

The possibilities are endless for road, gravel and mountain bikes.

Take Matej Mohoric's seat post dropper win in the downhill finale at Milan-San Remo.

The patent, filed under US 11866114 B2, reads: “Proper skill is required for the rider to appropriately control the seat post and the suspension during riding. It would be desirable to provide an optimum automatic control that is based on a traveling condition, a road surface condition, and/or a traveling purpose. 

“It is an object of the present invention to provide a component control device for optimally performing automatic control of a component having a telescopic mechanism, a method of creating a learning model, a learning model, and a computer-readable storage medium.”

Speaking of Mohoric, he also won the UCI Gravel World Championships and the seatpost and suspension elements would certainly come into play on gravel tracks and single track, which would also come in handy for MTB races.

In fact, an GPS aware AI head unit could also be pre-programmed to make adjustments automatically on a pre-planned course.

The data of the performance could be uploaded to cloud and re-used by that rider or other riders.

Seat angle could come in really handy on time trials, MTB endurance aswell as triathlon races.

With the advancement in electronic gearing on bikes, anything is possible.

Last summer, Urtopia Bikes announced their new model, the Carbon 1, which is integrated with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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