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Friday, November 30, 2007

Bikes by car makers: Addendum

A month ago or so, I was trying to dig up all the examples of car-branded bikes I could find -- from the high-end carbon Ferrari Colgnago and Ducati Corsa to the lowest of the low, the Jeep and Hummer bikes.

Today, I found the Dodge Viper bicycle, which is sort of the missing link between the extremes, I think.





With the new fuel economy standards getting close to passage, this may be the only vehicle to come out of Detroit in the next 12 months or so.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is definitely an effort by the auto industry to kill cycling-related enthusiasm by getting as many hideous bikes on the street as possible. I bet they are giving them away for free when you fill up the RV at your local Shell.

Joe said...

Have you seen the Felt/Dodge Grand Caravan bike/trailer combo? Very much in spite of myself, I kinda like it.

rinjin said...

You mentioned the Colnago. Just in case you haven't seen it in the wild, here it is in a bike shop in Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/2gtwu8

It was just down the wall from the Armani Bianchi. Yeesh.

Brian

Anonymous said...

i once rode with somebody who had a busweiser bike. yes, the beer. why do they do that...

Anonymous said...

don't forget the PT Cruiser bikes--my mother-in-law got one of these for free somehow. Still a little overpriced:

http://www.abikestore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=bc03_pturbo706&Category_Code=&Store_Code=abs