What The Heck Is This Thing?
06-12-07, 10:02 AM
#26
Senior Member
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
is it not obvious im just stating my opinion? all im doing is providing context from where my opinion comes from. i already posted a huge diatribe about my feelings about art and design once on bikeforums, you can search for it if you like. i dont want to get into it again. that bike is not art (and very few are), so talking about it like it is is pointless...
As a computer tech I think bikes are mostly very pretty.It IS evocative though, after all here we are discussing it on the intarweb!
06-12-07, 11:39 AM
#27
Prefers riding Up Hill
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 109
Bikes: Pumkin: '98 Stumpjumper Pro w/a bunch of upgrades; Buttercup: Anchor Keirin; Un-named/un-built Raleigh Grand Prix
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
If I'm remembering correctly, this bike is included in the SFMOMA design collection. With Eames chairs, Noguchi tables, ski boots from the 80s, toasters and other, ahem, objects of art. 3rd floor to the right, walk through the "100 years of design at the CCA" gallery and you'll find it. I'm not making jokes 
06-12-07, 11:54 AM
#28
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 250
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I like it. It's... funky. It's different. One of the only times I've liked internal cable routing. As to locking- maybe run a kryptonite chain through the back wheel and frame? Not ideal, granted, but it's something..
06-12-07, 02:11 PM
#29
raodmaster shaman
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: G-ville
Posts: 1,431
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
any one know how much it weighs?
EDIT: just checked. 35LB!!! you got to be kidding me. theres a reason bikes are triangular truss frames....
EDIT: just checked. 35LB!!! you got to be kidding me. theres a reason bikes are triangular truss frames....
06-12-07, 03:29 PM
#30
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: 'burbs of Ft Lauderdale, FL
Posts: 429
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
that bike looks like ass.
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
that bike looks like ass.
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
that bike looks like ass.
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
that bike looks like ass.
06-12-07, 03:43 PM
#31
(((Fully Awake)))
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper
Posts: 5,589
Bikes: Guerciotti Pista-Giant Carbon-Bridgestone300- Batavus Type Champion Road Bike, Specialized Hardrock Commuter, On-One The Gimp (SS Rigid MTB/hit by a truck)- Raleigh Sports 3-speed,Gatsby Scorcher, comming soon...The Penny Farthing Highwheel!
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
A. It's not new, I almost got one from this cool Danish chick in Manhattan circa 1995.
B. It does not look like an ass, it looks like a penis.
C. I did not go to Art School, but I've seen a lot of asses in my day. None of them resemble this bike.
D. It's not a POS Wal-Mart bike. Not even close. A lot more Danes ride bikes than Americans, totally different market. They want something modern and durable. Europeans are not, as a whole, obsessed with looking like they are in a bike race all the time like we do.
B. It does not look like an ass, it looks like a penis.
C. I did not go to Art School, but I've seen a lot of asses in my day. None of them resemble this bike.
D. It's not a POS Wal-Mart bike. Not even close. A lot more Danes ride bikes than Americans, totally different market. They want something modern and durable. Europeans are not, as a whole, obsessed with looking like they are in a bike race all the time like we do.
__________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
無上甚深微妙法 .... 百千萬劫難遭遇..... 我今見聞得受持
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
無上甚深微妙法 .... 百千萬劫難遭遇..... 我今見聞得受持
06-12-07, 03:48 PM
#32
(((Fully Awake)))
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper
Posts: 5,589
Bikes: Guerciotti Pista-Giant Carbon-Bridgestone300- Batavus Type Champion Road Bike, Specialized Hardrock Commuter, On-One The Gimp (SS Rigid MTB/hit by a truck)- Raleigh Sports 3-speed,Gatsby Scorcher, comming soon...The Penny Farthing Highwheel!
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Oh cool, her store is still open. She's really a neat person, I love this store.
https://www.clearlyfirst.com
https://www.clearlyfirst.com
__________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
無上甚深微妙法 .... 百千萬劫難遭遇..... 我今見聞得受持
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
無上甚深微妙法 .... 百千萬劫難遭遇..... 我今見聞得受持
06-12-07, 04:24 PM
#33
thomas masini lives
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: i aint dh no mo'
Posts: 3,495
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
if i were a millionaire
or maybe even a very high thousandaire
id stamp out thousands of these bikes
to form a critical mass army
they look like theyd do damage
hurled at cars
or maybe even a very high thousandaire
id stamp out thousands of these bikes
to form a critical mass army
they look like theyd do damage
hurled at cars
06-12-07, 04:41 PM
#34
Brian L. Baker
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Fresno, CA
Posts: 400
Bikes: Specialized Sirrus - 2000?
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
$4k for the cheapest version, as far as I can tell.
__________________
Brian
Brian
Cervelo Dual/Calfee Tetra Pro/Kestrel 200sc/Specialized Sirrus/Diamondback Ascent/Centurion Fixie
06-13-07, 01:15 AM
#36
sVe
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hellsinki, Funland
Posts: 1,063
Bikes: Nishiki Continental fixed winter beater, Fixed Surly CrossCheck
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Why do "Super Advanced Space ****ing Age Concept Bike 3000" - type things always have the ****tiest componentry, quill stems and crap saddles?
06-13-07, 02:09 AM
#37
Good for Business
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Madison
Posts: 853
Bikes: Team Fooj
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by doofo
if i were a millionaire
or maybe even a very high thousandaire
id stamp out thousands of these bikes
to form a critical mass army
they look like theyd do damage
hurled at cars
or maybe even a very high thousandaire
id stamp out thousands of these bikes
to form a critical mass army
they look like theyd do damage
hurled at cars
is that Brautigan?
06-13-07, 05:00 AM
#38
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: SoCal
Posts: 942
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Hardheadmandca
$4k for the cheapest version, as far as I can tell.
__________________
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
06-13-07, 05:05 AM
#39
Je pose, donc je suis.
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Odense, Denmark
Posts: 1,463
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Placid Casual
$4000 for a bike that weighs 35 pounds. Yes sir, those Danish modernists have really got it all over us poor, deluded fools on our old-timey diamond frame bikes.
"So far, the Biomega approach - call it form follows function follows fetishism - seems to have struck a chord. The €5,500 MN01 debuted in Europe in late May and earned $300,000 in the first month. Sales of the MN02 (with a €3,500 price tag) hit $150,000 during the same period.
"One customer bought the MN02 without any intention of ever riding it," notes Greg Krum of the New York design shop Moss, in SoHo. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is in the process of acquiring a Newson-designed bike, presumably not for transportation purposes. And the Pompidou Centre in Paris has an MN01 on display, as does the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which plans to include it in Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, an exhibition that opens this month."
06-13-07, 05:24 AM
#40
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: SoCal
Posts: 942
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by gcl8a
The €5,500 MN01 debuted in Europe in late May and earned $300,000 in the first month.
"One customer bought the MN02 without any intention of ever riding it,"
__________________
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
06-13-07, 05:30 AM
#41
Je pose, donc je suis.
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Odense, Denmark
Posts: 1,463
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Placid Casual
So they sold about forty of them in a month? Or is that supposed to be the amount of profit they made?
Kind of says it all, no?
Kind of says it all, no?
06-13-07, 12:44 PM
#42
raodmaster shaman
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: G-ville
Posts: 1,431
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by gcl8a
From https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/biomega.html:
"So far, the Biomega approach - call it form follows function follows fetishism - seems to have struck a chord. The €5,500 MN01 debuted in Europe in late May and earned $300,000 in the first month. Sales of the MN02 (with a €3,500 price tag) hit $150,000 during the same period.
"One customer bought the MN02 without any intention of ever riding it," notes Greg Krum of the New York design shop Moss, in SoHo. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is in the process of acquiring a Newson-designed bike, presumably not for transportation purposes. And the Pompidou Centre in Paris has an MN01 on display, as does the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which plans to include it in Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, an exhibition that opens this month."
"So far, the Biomega approach - call it form follows function follows fetishism - seems to have struck a chord. The €5,500 MN01 debuted in Europe in late May and earned $300,000 in the first month. Sales of the MN02 (with a €3,500 price tag) hit $150,000 during the same period.
"One customer bought the MN02 without any intention of ever riding it," notes Greg Krum of the New York design shop Moss, in SoHo. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is in the process of acquiring a Newson-designed bike, presumably not for transportation purposes. And the Pompidou Centre in Paris has an MN01 on display, as does the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which plans to include it in Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, an exhibition that opens this month."
but it does look kinda cool.
06-13-07, 03:33 PM
#46
:)
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: duluth
Posts: 3,391
Bikes: '07 Pista, '09 Fantom Cross Uno, '8? Miyata, '67 Stingray, '0? Zoo mod trials, Tallbike, Chopper, '73 Schwinn Collegiate, '67 Triumph Chopper, '69 CB350, '58 BSA Spitfire, '73 CB450
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Reminds me of:
06-13-07, 03:48 PM
#47
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: NYC
Posts: 3,363
Bikes: DW
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
as someone who produces fine farts i think it looks like the lisa-simpson-giving-head part of the london 2012 olympics logo
06-13-07, 04:03 PM
#49
:)
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: duluth
Posts: 3,391
Bikes: '07 Pista, '09 Fantom Cross Uno, '8? Miyata, '67 Stingray, '0? Zoo mod trials, Tallbike, Chopper, '73 Schwinn Collegiate, '67 Triumph Chopper, '69 CB350, '58 BSA Spitfire, '73 CB450
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Originally Posted by jamey
holy f*ck!! 
06-13-07, 11:00 PM
#50
on a steel horse I ride
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Philadelphia PA
Posts: 179
Bikes: 2007 Raleigh Rush Hour
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by gcl8a
"One customer bought the MN02 without any intention of ever riding it," notes Greg Krum of the New York design shop Moss, in SoHo. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is in the process of acquiring a Newson-designed bike, presumably not for transportation purposes. And the Pompidou Centre in Paris has an MN01 on display, as does the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which plans to include it in Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, an exhibition that opens this month."
I'm not saying this thing is much of a bike, I'm just trying to explain why it's so popular.
PS: Moss in SoHo is awesome, not that I can afford much there, aside from my mousepad.