$150,000 bike... Your thoughts?

[jrandom]

Quite horrid.

[madbikeboy]

I like it. I like the hossack front end. I like how ugly it is. I like the carbon beam from which everything is built off. I like that its loud, different, obnoxious, and uncomfortable.

Squint while looking at every other naked bike, and they all look the same. Design studios are afraid of pushing the limits, and most bikers are so conservative.

52,000 quid, the mortgage can wait, the dog doesn't really need the expensive dog food, I can eat macaroni cheese. Desmosidici versus Wraith. Hmm.

[TOTO]

my taughts - ugly and expensive

[KiwiRat]

Brad Pitt has a Hellcat.



Says it all really. IMO he lost all credibility when he hooked up with ol' Pneumatic knockers.

[hellkat]

I think if I was going to spend that sort of money for a bike to look like some sort of engineering mentalist job, I'd just go to Twizzle in Bournemouth, and ask him to throw something together

[hellkat]

Brad Pitt has a Hellcat.

Not this hellkat he don't.
I prefer Johnny Depp, ta.

Note for wonderers: NO ... I did not name myself after one of those atrocities.

[Conquiztador]

I like it. I like the hossack front end. I like how ugly it is. I like the carbon beam from which everything is built off. I like that its loud, different, obnoxious, and uncomfortable.

Squint while looking at every other naked bike, and they all look the same. Design studios are afraid of pushing the limits, and most bikers are so conservative.

52,000 quid, the mortgage can wait, the dog doesn't really need the expensive dog food, I can eat macaroni cheese. Desmosidici versus Wraith. Hmm.

Gimme 50,000 quid and I promise you that I will produce you a bike that will look uglier, have worse handling and turn more heads. Something that will stand out no matter where you park it. I could even make it smell for that price so blind ppl would say "Yuk" too...

I liked this quote: "I can only assume rich bikers have no sense of aesthetics whatsoever. The Wraith looks like a particularly ugly washing machine while the Hellcat wouldn't look out of place at a ratbike rally. Anybody shelling out the 50K asking price ought to have a little set aside for psychotherapy." lol

[Luckylegs]

Taking the rider out of the picture and it looks like Ned Kelly on rollerskates !!! Its awful

[Bend-it]

what else can I say? Hate it. just awful... Yuck.

[rainman]

I'm with the majority here. It's just plain revolting.

[Toaster]

Its made out of mecano

exactly what I thought sister!

[fizbin]

e-gads man they really pulled out the fugley stick for that didn't they?
you would think for 50,000 you would get a bit more bang and looks for your buck?

[Mikkel]

This quote is quite good as well IMHO:

I used to own a bike with girder forks, a BSA M20. They worked OK. (Not 52K's worth of OK, though.)

I have a hard time seeing Ned Kelly on rollerskates though...

[Big Dave]

I'm with the majority here. It's just plain revolting.

Probably what appeals to me most about it.
The two-wheeled figurative 'f@ck you'.

[Laava]

How about one of these bad boys available as a kitset from ITM for a paltry $95,348.00?