20 Coolest Bike Designs?

[Aperitif]

Prompted by a ridiculously expensive bike featured in the FT magazine, I came across this feature of Bloomberg's coolest. Maybe there's one you fancy?

 

[MontyVeda]

this is my favourite...

love the idea of the solar powered lights set front and back of that over sized top tube... but sure where the PV's are


edited for typo and a...

ps.. where can i get some 26" white walls like that?

 

[Smokin Joe]

I'd have to go back to the Mike Burrows designed bike on which Chris Boardman set the hour record and had his TdF TT successes. A radical rethink on the most efficient way to engineer a frame, banned by the UCI because they could.

 

[rich p]

Blimey, there's some fugly bikes there!

$20,000 for the black one put me off getting my credit card out!

 

[Aperitif]

Blimey, there's some fugly bikes there!

$20,000 for the black one put me off getting my credit card out!

Ha ha Rich, that's the Hublot (posh watch) I saw yesterday, that prompted a search for such frippery. Apparently, it's all about brand building. IWC (another posh watch Co.) have a Storck bicycle, called the 'Ingenieur' - yours for only £9332 - a bargain compared to the Hublot at £14,600.

Bummer to strap one on your wrist though...

 

[Firestorm]

Including washing machine bits

 

[Flying_Monkey]

the article mistakes publicity-seeking for good design... as usual in these kind of pieces.

 

[Arch]

So the IF mode gets in as 'particularly compact', but there's no Brompton?

Looks to be like quite a lot of not very different bikes. Not sure why they are 'cool', and others aren't.

 

[dellzeqq]

some of them are just clunkers. And no Kirk Precision (vintage, available from Dell 'Zeqq Cycles for $20,000)

 

[Night Train]

I quite like this one:

This one too:

Perhaps neither are any good for 'serious' riding but in terms of design...

 

[topcat1]

Prompted by a ridiculously expensive bike featured in the FT magazine, I came across this feature of Bloomberg's coolest. Maybe there's one you fancy?

i quite fancy this one

 

[taxing]

I like this one from the back:

Not really from the side though.

I'd prefer some variation in the thickness of the frame somewhere, and I hate when manufacturers just slap on their grotty logo. I reckon that most bike manufacturers' logos are designed to appeal to men, so if they're going to design women's fashion bikes they should use another logo for those. My bike has Claud Butler written on it in a squiggly script and I really like it.

 

[Aperitif]

I'd prefer some variation in the thickness of the frame somewhere, and I hate when manufacturers just slap on their grotty logo. I reckon that most bike manufacturers' logos are designed to appeal to men, so if they're going to design women's fashion bikes they should use another logo for those. My bike has Claud Butler written on it in a squiggly script and I really like it.

Rich P & I will come back in another life and ride company bikes with " 'The Claud' - Butler " written down the side.