€80,000 bike anyone?

DirkVoodoo · 23-09-2008 6:37pm #1

From Bikeradar: Full Story

At €80,000, (that’s just over £60,000 or USD118,000) each bike is hand-built and gold-plated with 24-carat gold, then decked out with over 600 Swarovski crystals.

Hand-sewn leather grips and a Brooks leather saddle provide finishing touches to the bike, with each limited edition number embossed with gold leaf and set into a leather badge onto the bike’s headtube.

I wonder exactly who these 10 people are going to be? I'm guessing the inclusion of a Brooks saddle could mean Blorg is on the waiting list

72hundred · 23-09-2008 7:15pm

BARGAIN! :pac::pac::pac:

Harrybelafonte · 23-09-2008 7:16pm

Had to be fixed gear didn't it

blorg · 23-09-2008 7:19pm

Utter tack. Charge have done it already (gold plated bike) for £8k and in credit to them it was for a promotion for another company- a bike insurance firm. Swarovski crystals, FFS. They didn't even have the good taste to stick a Brooks Swallow on it. Instead they use a B17 at a jaunty angle. And they didn't even spec the titanium rail version, it's the cheap steel rail one.

The customer is the design company that created it, to drum up buzz with their target demographic.

TheNog · 23-09-2008 7:22pm

80 grand and not even brakes on it. pure rip off :pac:

DirkVoodoo · 23-09-2008 7:24pm

I take it your not too impressed then? I wouldn't imagine the type of person who buys a bike with crystals dotted around a gold frame would be too observant about the quality of the saddle rails.

It is a bit of a cheap (read pricey) PR exercise. Shame they didn't use a watch or an ipod or someother piece of junk, I can see 50 cent or Usher buying one of these to pop down to the shops for a litre of milk because its "pimpin"

TinyExplosions · 23-09-2008 7:25pm

I want the 50k lock to go with it....

Also, i want a cashmere top tube protector!

Chips Lovell · 23-09-2008 8:01pm

Wouldn't fancy a 24 carat frame on the hills.

kleefarr · 23-09-2008 8:08pm

el tonto wrote: »

Wouldn't fancy a 24 carat frame on the hills.

OR the streets.

23-09-2008 8:14pm

If I had to cycle on something like that ,I would probably vomit all over it.

blorg · 23-09-2008 8:43pm

el tonto wrote: »

Wouldn't fancy a 24 carat frame on the hills.

See it as a challenge. Myself, I ride depleted uranium

72hundred · 23-09-2008 10:25pm

blorg wrote: »

See it as a challenge. Myself, I ride depleted uranium

well at least that would negate the need for lights at night, what with the green'ish glow off it!

€80,000 bike anyone?

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