First, one I saw outside Equinox this very morning. It’s a Cinelli Vigorelli, cut from Columbus Aluminum. It’s a bad-ass track-only frame. Here it’s been kitted for the street with a vintage Campy crank, Velocity Deep V rims laced to Phil Wood hubs, and white-painted stem and handlebar. Thoroughly modern save the crank. In my eyes, this is at the pinnacle of street-machine cool. It’s like a cafe racer: stripped down from its full race shape, capable of high speeds and certainly not really built for NYC streets. Very cool.
Next, the 2010 BMC SLR. Hot. Photo yanked from CyclingNews. BMC has also teamed up with Hublot recently to create the following, the “All Black” bike.
This is quite literally bicycle pornography.
And then there’s this concept bike, from Seattle-based design company Teague. They sought to re-think the idea of a commuter bike, complete with style, function, and an understanding of what makes bikes great already. Thus, it’s not over-complicated in its approach, looks great, and probably would live up to its billing in real life. The main triangle is a C-channel, which would trap water on rainy commutes. I’m not sure how stiff it could be, but with enough money it could definitely be made rigid with today’s composite technologies. And while I’m not yet sold on integrated electronics, they’re becoming a reality in the ProTour peloton, so I suppose we’ll see them trickling down to our everyday bikes. Pretty cool stuff. Check out their paper on it here to see all their design thinking.