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A handmade bicycle, plated with 24-carat gold and adorned with more than 600 Swarovski crystals, has become the world's most expensive bicycle after it was sold for 55,000 pounds.A handmade bicycle, plated with 24-carat gold and adorned with more than 600 Swarovski... more
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The Pulse concept-o-cycle from Teague is a cross between a fixed-gear bike, a cafe-racer motorcycle and a bag of fireflies. The ultra-simple bike design includes glowing tubes, bar-ends and even pedal, which will both keep you safe at night and, due to being built-in, resist the attempts of thieves.
The bike exists nowhere except inside a CAD application, and the pictures generated therefrom, which explains some of the rather odd details (take a look at those toe-straps, for example), but the idea and the styling is sound. The bar-tips contain LED turn-signals, operated by twist-grip switches. Pointless in the day, but dead handy at night. The tail-light is in the seat-post, and the whole frame glows in the dark (although the designer doesn’t bother to tell us how. Maybe it is fireflies).
One neat touch is in the pedals, which are weighted to always stay right-side-up for easy toe entry. We’re not sure how well that would work in practice, but we’d like to give it a try.The Pulse concept-o-cycle from Teague is a cross between a fixed-gear bike, a... more
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