aw. That's sweet. It comes with a little basket for Toto, too.

Good luck hauling that hunk of iron up to your third-floor walk-up every night.

What you don't see in the photos is that, in the right light, it glows like Marsellus Wallace's suitcase.

Wot's all this then?

Do they make a men's version?

Great. Now I'll never get that Queen song out of my head.

Am I the only one who upon seeing someone on one of those pansy-ass hipster bikes, has to fight the urge to clothesline the invariably sallow and tubercular manorexic riding it? It's the 21st Century, for fuck's sake, you might as well grow a handlebar mustache, put on a bowler hat and start cycling around on one of those antique big-wheel-in-the-front bicycles.

@bacon-yum: I was going to say how much I like it but you made me hate it. I just picture a pretty girl on the bike and then it's not so bad. Anways, funny - yes.

This so-called Tyler Brûlé's got a sweet gig: self-appointed arbiter of taste, selling shitbox-looking, throwback Soviet-era-looking bicycles for 1,200 clams.

And I call bullshit on the spelling of his last name: not even the crème brulée kind has two accents in 'brulé'...

@bacon-yum: Please, for the love of God, do NOT give them any ideaas.

I now expect to see bowler hats and handlebar mustaches in McCarren next weekend on their heavy irony bikes.

'heavy irony'

You did that on purpose, didn't you?

@Otto-Reimer: But God, how funny would that be? Next up on Cobrasnake, corsets and syphilitic mouth sores.

@bacon-yum: "you might as well grow a handlebar mustache, put on a bowler hat and start cycling around on one of those antique big-wheel-in-the-front bicycles."

Don't give them any more bad ideas - they've already got the moustaches for fuck's sake!

that's a $120 bike though -- did they get the price wrong or are rich retarded people actually THAT rich and retarded???

Those bikes are not good. They're beyond not good. The entire issue is bike themed, but shows a pronounced lack of understanding the first thing about bikes and bike culture, unless you mean as accessories -- you know, Bikes do Furnish a Room (or hanging in Jerry Seinfeld's back room). With all the amazing, well-designed and interesting bike makers out there today, they pick the cheesy idiots who make bikes designed to adorn a Prada store. Then there was the atrocity run in the Sunday City section. Lordy, it's enough to make a man go back to gasoline.

@bacon-yum: Would hipsters appreciate the Prisoner reference?

@bacon-yum, @Clevertrousers: Actually, I'd vastly prefer "1920's grifter" over "dude wearing girl jeans with visible junk." At least in the twenties crotch bulges weren't in fashion.

@yetimike: Agreed - I was thinking you could get a used Raleigh just like that for 75 bucks.

Christ, what sort of goofball would buy that thing? Nobody that had earned the $1200 themselves, I can tell ya that.

Wait, did you get this link from Plasticbag?

Anyway, yes, brûlé(e) in French does take both those accents. Check le Grand Dictionnaire. English bastardizations (Cf. résumé/résume/resumé/resume) don't count.

And stop picking on Tyler! He's sui generis! Or at least his magazines are.

http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/27/monocular/

Wow, beautiful bike. I saw a girl riding a bike exactly like this last summer in Central Park. I've always wished I'd asked her where she got it. Now I know.
-thanks
Kate