Half bicycle, half iMac, entirely beautiful
Look at this extraordinarily beautiful bicycle.
Who designed the colours? Why, colour genius Beatrice Santiccioli of Apple, whom we can thank for all the colours of the iMacs (and I rather fancy judging by this machine the iBook and iPod too).
This minimalist wonder actually, genuinely, glows in the dark. It comes in four very beautiful colours (<a href="http://www.biomega.dk"; target="_blank">visit Biomega to see them</a>) and the company make a version with a bamboo frame, too.
I want this bicycle very, very much. It costs £650.
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Who designed the colours? Why, colour genius Beatrice Santiccioli of Apple, whom we can thank for all the colours of the iMacs (and I rather fancy judging by this machine the iBook and iPod too).
This minimalist wonder actually, genuinely, glows in the dark. It comes in four very beautiful colours (<a href="http://www.biomega.dk"; target="_blank">visit Biomega to see them</a>) and the company make a version with a bamboo frame, too.
I want this bicycle very, very much. It costs £650.
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Can you see the chain?
No, you can't. This is called a 'cardanic shaft'. I haven't got a clue how it works, but it means no more folding up your trousers when you hop on to go to the shops.
This is the most beautiful bicycle I've ever seen. The stem is made from a single piece of aluminium, the whole thing's photo-luminescent and it comes in the most amazing colours you can imagine.
It's innovative, expensive, and it looks incredible: Biomega are the Apple Computer of bicycles and next to this my sleek silver Cannondale is a gruesome beige box.
It only costs as much as two 20gig iPods.
I am definitely going to buy one.
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It glows in the dark.
It doesn't have a chain.
Its colours are selected by the genius behind the snow iMac.
It looks like an iBook with wheels.
Made from a single piece of aluminium.
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What's interesting is that it has SRAM stuff in the rear to shift the gears. That's a Chicago company. I've been to the office. I haven't tried their stuff since the "GripShit" days
I'll say it's odd.
<strong>Most cranks are one piece of aluminum.
What's interesting is that it has SRAM stuff in the rear to shift the gears. That's a Chicago company. I've been to the office. I haven't tried their stuff since the "GripShit" days
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Absolutely right. But it's intended to get you from one place in the city to another rather than TrevorM-esque hardtailing up one side of a mountain and down the other.
I've got three cogs on the front of mine, of which I only ever use the top two, and 99% of the time I only use the top 5 gears of the 27 I've got. A nine speed ratio in the city is excessive, really - you need to replace the chain and the block every six months at least because they wear out so fast (if you ride as much as I do, and that's £60 a time) and although you can smoke most bikes at traffic lights there's only one hill in my town that even calls for the middle ring at the front. It's a bit silly.
"Look, it's not clock speed, it's the operations per second!"
I don't know much about SRAM, but they've got 'RAM' in this bike's specs which makes it even more Mac-esque as far as I'm concerned.
Dunno. I just dig it.
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<strong> Only 7 speeds?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, when you're not duplicating ratios 7 speeds would do quite nicely. Nobody ever actually uses all 21 speeds that you find on bikes these days. Nor should you.
<strong>Why shouldn't you use all 21? I can think of a reason one reason.</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you can think of a reason, why are you asking?
You don't use all 21 speeds because the ratios overlap. For example: you don't have the chain coming off the innermost chainring on the front driving the outermost cog on the rear block because you can create the same ratio with another combination and not cause the chain to deflect as much.
<strong>Am I missing something? because I don't see what's so great about it (the first one).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Agree 100% with you! Its Odd, and darn ugly!
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Agree 100% with you! Its Odd, and darn ugly!
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Thank you! I'm not the only one!
<strong>Owned!
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Damn, that looks like the Compaq of bikes! Yeck! Sophistication is a virtue.