I’m with this guy. It looks like a stupid fun bike… stupidly expensive, but fun. Would ride, won’t buy.
yeh boi
Coz those Hetres are sooooo skid friendly and cheap.
This is stratospheric muppet territory and makes the Rawland Ravn look on point.
It would take something this dumb to make the Ravn look desirable to me.
Needs moar belt drive……
toast and this bike would be a good morning i reckon.
Do everwears come in 650b?
This bike is ridiculously expensive for what it is and everyone involved with it should feel bad.
Waiting for a photo with some dude wearing Outlier pants and Rapha headphones with it.
guys why so much hate just trying to spread the stoke
Wait, the little pannier thing is held on with zip ties??
Hetres are an upgrade (just like nearly everything else). stock isn’t mentioned.
You could get these
http://www.cellbikes.com.au/Maxxis-Detonator-27-5-650b-x-1-5-Tyre
or these
or these (probs too big)
or, you could buy a junkyard dog.
OR you could just get an old MTB, chuck some cheap 26" slicks on it and coasterskid it just as hard on your way to the toast cafe (fuck, I’d even put a coffee cup holder on the bars, coz whythefucknot) and not spend more than $200 and use the other $8800 for toast, cocaine and rent.
First bike that came to mind when seeing this, was Kumo’s travel bike. Guess the lack of a backpedal brake means it doesn’t count.
lol fml
Willing to guess you could buy a Kumo or two for the same as this Prolly Approved Shredder.
This.
In my mind it makes a perfect advertisement for Speedvagen’s other bicycles - they look comparatively well valued in contrast. Not to mention all the media hype you get by releasing the stupidest bicycle of 2015.
^ That’s the automobile marketing strategy, isn’t it? Show everyone your best model in the hope that they might buy something down the other end.
Team issue stock geo speedvagen CX: USD$8575 + groupset
I guess that’s better value? you get some gears and brakes for only a couple of thousand more?
Which is the ‘halo bike’? We haven’t even gotten to a “vanilla” urban racer yet, these are all the budget speedvagens.
I would rather buy this - and i have ridden one and they are super fun:
https://www.transitionbikes.com/2015/Bikes_Klunker.cfm
USD$579, why would you buy that when you could buy the $600 integrated bar/stem on the vagen instead? pfft. Rod, you crazy, it doesn’t even have a ‘chainguard’ that stiffens the frame and improves power transfer.
that just looks like that khs rigid 29er i cobbled together for 150 dollars in 2009