Check out this utterly bonkers two man recumbent bicycle covered in a wire mesh made to look like a Lamborghini Countach.
It was made by the Wilson Brothers and ridden in September’s ArtCar Parade in Manchester.
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
He hits 105mph and the bike just disintegrates beneath him. Not so good.
This reminds me a little of a kid I saw at SSUK who was dragging a cheapo full suspension mountain bike after him – he’d probably gone over a rock or log or something as the whole thing had just crumpled – even the front wheel had folded in half.
The Bicycle Film Festival is rolling into London between the 17th and 21st of October and they’ve announced their programme. Along with the usual films, there are numerous after show parties with live bands and even a bike polo championship put on by Brick Lane Bike Polo for the last day.
Tickets are a princely £7 per showing and even includes valet bicycle parking(!) on some nights.
For the full lowdown check out the details on their website.
Fantasic stuff, but we can’t help but feel it’s a bit of a shame one has to schlep it all the way out to trendy Bethnal Green to check any of it out. What with the power of teh_Internets it would be great to watch the films on YouTube or the like.
I’ve never been convinced by the Langster, and the emergence of themed ‘city’ editions of each has made me even more unsure about them.
They’ve received a lot of stick all over the internet for the bikes and I don’t think I can do a better job than Bike Snob NYC of explaining all the things that are wrong with them (he’s talking specifically about the New York version) so here’s the link.
