Testing Times introduces ... The Skud

Just in case Planet X’s Exocet never gets of the ground, Paul Hyde has been heading up a highly experienced (average age of 73) and vastly over-rated team developing (yet) another time trial frame for 2010.
Leaked reports of a non-UCI approved no-holds-barred-sooper-doopa-we-can-produce-a-state-of-the-art-never-believed-possible-time-trial-frame-on-a-shoe-string-budget appear to be true. Hyde has been seen by his butlers, chauffeurs and kitchen staff road-testing what is believed to be Planet X’s much hyped Skud frameset.
To date, testing has not extended outside the confines of Hyde’s modest multi million pound mansion in the Kentish countryside. Handling characteristics have, so far, been proven to be exceptional. Hyde is reported to have been able to manoeuvre from his own bedroom on the fourth floor of the east wing to the chambermaid’s bedroom on the third floor of the north wing and across to the chauffeur’s daughter’s bedroom on the second floor of the west wing down to his purpose-built cycling workshop in the basement without leaving any trace of his whereabouts.
Mrs Hyde is reported to be sick to death of her husband’s skud-marks found elsewhere however - but has grown to accept that as a consequence of his advancing years.
The world’s cycling press has, until now, been unable to provide photographs of Planet X’s latest venture in to the high tech world of formula 1 time trialling. As a world exclusive, Testing Times is pleased to be able to introduce the world to ... the Skud!
No doubt the designers and financial backers behind the project will be monitoring feedback on the TriTalk and time trial forums to see if their market researchers have done their homework and pitched this one right. Testing Times won’t be holding its breath.