Each year as the Tour France presses on through the French countryside, our desire and envy for faster sleeker cooler bikes is reinvigorated. While the German Team Tentakulus is not preparing to train its riders to race against many of the world's best, their new Shocker bike could be highly competitive for cool. Most Shocker riders will probably never need to worry about changing gears or overtaking fellow riders on steep climbs through the Alps. Besides looking good, switching on the headlight for safe night cruising is just about the only true performance feature that comes standard on every bike.
