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Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Postby CommuRider » Mon May 16, 2011 10:47 pm
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby damhooligan » Tue May 17, 2011 11:05 pm
Bmw also has a kids bike :CommuRider wrote:Wt?Aushiker wrote:Hi
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Postby damhooligan » Tue May 17, 2011 11:36 pm
ah spoiled brats, make me think of this joke of comedian wil anderson:CommuRider wrote:Good way to rear the next gen of spoilt brats. Still, at least the kids bike designs look innovative.
daddy, daddy, i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed a babychino!
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Mulger bill » Wed May 18, 2011 3:02 pm
+1 Nothing like indoctrinating into high end consumerism at a young age.CommuRider wrote:Good way to rear the next gen of spoilt brats. Still, at least the kids bike designs look innovative.
I dunno whether that's innovative design or look at me marketing. Standard diamond frame is still the most efficient design for an upright. Be quiet Graeme
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
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Postby damhooligan » Sat May 21, 2011 5:28 pm
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby damhooligan » Sat May 21, 2011 5:32 pm
Or a hummer ??
or OPEL ?? (dutch version of holden)
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Postby damhooligan » Sat May 21, 2011 5:40 pm
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby il padrone » Sat May 21, 2011 5:44 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Sat May 21, 2011 9:55 pm
Here's a Lexus ebike from last year (17kg)
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Sat May 21, 2011 9:58 pm
Hmmm...for some reason I thought the Hummer would be twice as big. Not very Hummer like. Looks like a Montague version of an MTB. It also does not look fugly enoughdamhooligan wrote:
Or a hummer ??
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby il padrone » Sat May 21, 2011 10:06 pm
Originally designed by the man himself.... in 1913. Much later built by an AmericanCommuRider wrote:How old's that Bugatti? Not very vroom vroom is it?
Pretty racey really for its era (pre-WW1). A chap here in Melbourne also has a replica of the Bugatti, he rode it on the Russell Mockridge memorial ride last year.Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was born in Milan on 15 September 1881 and at the age of 17 he joined as an apprentice the bicycle and tricycle manufacturing plant of Prinetti & Stucchi. He is the Bugatti that went on to become the legendary engineer and designer of the most famous Bugatti sports cars, the founder of the Bugatti car manufacturing plant, and one of the forefathers of modern automobile engineering.
In 1913 he designed a very unique, space-frame, bicycle which was never produced. The drawings for this bicycle were provided to Californian Art Stump in the 1970s by a noted English Bugatti collector who commissioned him to build a bicycle based on the drawings. Art Stump built one for that collector, and one for himself as well.
I'm not so sure that Ettore never built one himself, as there are photos on a Bugatti site of a much older model
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby yellowhummer » Mon May 23, 2011 4:14 pm
like it lots
all i need now is a contract for my rapping,
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Aushiker » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:45 am
Toyota has teamed up with Parlee Cycles in an effort to create a bicycle based on Prius design principles.
Commissioned by Toyota, Parlee is developing this state-of the art, ultra efficient bicycle in an effort to encompass the best of both the auto and non-auto transportation worlds. To document and comment on the event, Parlee has reached out to cyclist and blogger John Watson, who has done a great job at giving us a first hand account of this exciting event.
Despite the fact that bicycle design has stayed relatively the same throughout the years, the design team decided to look at all the different possibilities, using inspiration from city, road, and touring bikes, and combining it with some Prius inspired concepts. The preliminary design sketches alluded to what the designers call an “areo road bike.
The bike frame was designed using carbon fiber tubing – a lightweight, aerodynamic, stiff and seamless material, perfect for racing – making for a good flexible bike. Although carbon fiber isn’t exactly recyclable, Parlee minimizes their waste by reusing all of their scraps in their design. The carbon fiber tubing is then covered with a raw black finish, giving it an elegant look. The mold is overlaid on the tubing along with resin.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby CommuRider » Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:16 am
£3K
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby trailgumby » Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:15 am
Nice looking bike, practical too.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:52 pm
What's the go with the suspension corrected geometry? Nobody in their right mind would put a boinger on this would they? Would they?
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Aushiker » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:21 am
More at Road.ccBilled as the 'first BMW dealership in the country to feature a full bike store and dedicated cycle workshop' Stephen James Cycles opened in Enfield two weeks ago on the first floor of Stephen James BMW. They have their commercial reasons of course but it helps that the company's MD is a keen cyclist.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Nobody » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:45 pm
$11K for a flat bar with plastic flat pedals. Hmmm...
At least he cited the most useful reason for buying carbon:
...its carbon-fibre frame, forks, handlebars, stem and seatpost are good brag-bits when you roll up to the local riders' coffee spot.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby briztoon » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:24 pm
Um same bike four posts higher up the page and 3 months ago.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby Nobody » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:29 pm
They look like different bikes with different prices.briztoon wrote:Um same bike four posts higher up the page and 3 months ago.
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Re: Expensive carmarkers enter bike market
Postby briztoon » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:08 pm
OK so one is alu and the other is carbon, my bad.
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