Bike of the future will never be stolen, has puncture-proof tyres and will play music as you ride



It will count calories as you pedal, play music and use a solar-powered motor when you get tired - welcome to the commuter bike of the future.

Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman was today unveiling a design that he believes will be an everyday product within 20 years. The 40-year-old said the technology was already available, it just needed the will to put it all together.

Boardman's bike will be attractive to commuters due to its 'unbreakable' lock

The new bike, which would cost around £2,000, includes an inbuilt computer system incorporating an 'unbreakable' locking device that allows only the owner to open it via fingerprint recognition

A mini computer on the handlebars counts the calories the cyclist is burning by monitoring each turn of the pedals.



Chris Boardman in action. The Olympic cyclist has designed a bike of the future

Spoke-less wheels make the bike more aerodynamic while the tyres will be puncture-proof with self-inflating tyres.

'The tyre (and rim) rotate around the doughnut shape which is fixed, a bit like having a bangle on your wrist - it can spin on your wrist without your wrist turning,' Mr Boardman explained.



Owners of the bike, which is still being designed, won't even always have to pedal - a battery-assisted motor run by solar panels takes over if they get tired.



Plus the frame is made of carbon fibre, making the bike strong and lightweight.

Boardman, who led a research team for British Cycling in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, said the bike would not be 'financially feasible' for 20 years.

However, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist for the four-kilometre pursuit added: 'It could be built now if there was a will. All the technologies are already there, it's just that nobody's put them all together before.'

He told the MailOnline: 'What will happen is elements of the design (such as solar powered lighting and integrating components into the frame) will be

feed into near future bike designs.



'Boardman bikes will be doing some of this in the next one to two years.'



Tom Bogdanowicz, campaign manager at London Cycling Campaign, said: 'Some of the ideas behind this bike are clearly things cyclists want. But it really needs to be affordable.'