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Most Expensive Bicycles
1. Aurumania’s Gold Bike Crystal edition – Most Expensive
The Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal edition is plated almost entirely plated with 24 karat gold… right down to the spokes. The Brooks saddle seat is made with the finest leather; and the hand sewn handlebar grips are made from, chocolate brown leather. The numbered badge is even made of high grade leather. This top of the line bike is called the “Crystal edition” because it is decorated with more than 600 Swarovski crystals… right down to the crystal encrusted Aurmania brand name emblazoned along the crossbar in Braille.
The Crystal edition is undoubtedly the world’s most expensive bicycle, and to add to its value is the fact that it is a limited edition item. Only ten will be made, making the Aurmania Gold Crystal Edition an extremely valuable rarity, indeed. This unique bicycle can be purchased for a mere €80,000 (US $114,464), and delivered anywhere in the world.
2. Madone 5.9 SL – covered in gold and man-made diamonds
7-Diamond, a one-of-a-kind bicycle studded with seven man made diamonds and 300 white diamonds, was sold in 2005 at the Lance Armstrong Foundation Gala to an anonymous buyer. The Bejeweled bicycle was designed and built as a commemoration of Lance Armstrong’s seventh Tour de France victory. The expensive bike, represents a joint effort between Trek Bikes, Nike, jeweler Alan Friedman and artist Lenny Futura, and was valued at $60,000 USD at the time of the sale. The selling price at the charity auction was $75,000.
3. Litespeed Blade – Kit Bike
When you add all of the options, the Litespeed Blade can cost up to £25,317*. The list of options includes such things as custom wheels and handlebars and an assortment of other accessories. Click here for the complete listing of accessories and attachments. It may not be dipped in gold or encrusted with crystals, but the Litespeed Blade is sure to make your riding experience one that you will cherish for many years to come
* not dipped in gold and encrcusted with Svarowski elements or whatever.
4. Celebrity Gold Bike – Needs security guard
This bike as been created for celebrity cyclists and it will hopefully be bought by the cyclist "cyclist who has everything.”
The bike, the most expensive in Britain, is too expensive to be insured – so it comes with its own personal body guard.
The bicycle, which has a 24ct gold-framed machine and is custom-made, has been commissioned by the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), an insurance provider.
Bicycles over £4,000 cannot be insured, so it comes with optional extra of its own bodyguard, which will stand by the bike whenever it is left in public.
5. Channel Bike – Limited edition
The Limited Edition Chanel Bike is the ultimate two-wheeled novelty. With only fifty of these bikes available worldwide and less than twenty in the US, this unique invention was purchased wholesale for $17,000, with retailer mark-ups sometimes going as high as $28,000.
The Chanel Bike aims to please with superior quality details, like the quilted leather handlebarss, seat made by the legendary Brooks Brothers, pant guard, and a bike pump covered in Chanel’s signature quilted leather. The Channel Bike also features a jewelry roll behind the seat and two quilted saddle bags, which are all detachable and capable of doubling as individual shoulder bags.
6. Diamond encrusted Enigma Elle Bicycle
The specially commissioned diamond and gold Elle Bicycle was produced by Enigma. Renowned jeweller Nicholas James, the winner of the Independent Retailer of the Year, was commissioned to design this diamond studded cycle by a customer who wanted it to be a surprise gift for his cycling-mad better half. When Nicholas James accepted the challenge to create this unique bicycle, he went to Enigma for the frame and parts, selecting the high performance titanium Elle frame for its light weight and its design and engineering with specific geometry and dimensions for women.
Rumor has it that Foo-Kune’s husband, Lee, ordered this custom-built diamond studded titanium bicycle with 18 karat gold parts after her previous cycle was stolen. With all of the glittering diamonds and gold, one can just imagine the kind of lock he purchased to keep this one safe from thieves.
7. Koga Kimera
Koga developed this bike for Dutch Olympic hopeful Theo Bos. Koga claims that they spent a million US dollars developing this special one of a kind bicycle.
According to reports, the Koga Kimera has the lowest air resistance of any bike in the world. However, it has its downside. Bicycles with the ultra stiff frame and capability to go super fast make the Koga Kimera one of the most sought after bikes in the world; however, when combined with the fact that it has no brakes and only one speed it is one of the most difficult to ride.
8. BERU f1 Systems Factor 001 Bicycle
The BERU f1 Systems Factor 001 Bicycle is arguably one of the most expensive bikes on the market today. It costs more than a standard family-sized auto and retails for about GBP20,000. According to BERU f1 Systems, the Factor 001 bicycle is so costly because it features many advanced built in features, an innovative design and many new means of fitness training for athletes and serious cycling enthusiasts as well. It weighs a less than 7 kilograms, comes with a standard on-board computer and performance monitoring system and a GPS and radio transmitter.
9. Electric Assist Bicyle by eROCKIT
A nano-phosphate lithium battery helps the eROCKIT to last for ten years or travel up to 50,000 kilometers. A single battery charge could last up to sixty or eighty kilometres, depending upon the rider’s individual pedalling style. eROCKIT built just ten of these machines in 2009. Cycling enthusiasts who want to mount this gem on their bike rack can do so for a mere $44,000.
10. KGS ‘Tier 3′ Bikes
The man behind the high-end KGS Tier 3 Bikes is Kevin Saunders. It’s called the Tier 3 because of the $30,000 price tag… the price of a comfortable automobile. While Tier 3 bikes may not seat two, four or more, these offer superb styling. The fine woodwork etching and pleasant ride combine with state or the art engineering to offer the most pleasant ride possible, adding immeasurable value to the buyer’s life.
lovehate: The Eigenharp - Tapping, Strumming, Blowing!
via news.bbc.co.uk
At a cost of 4000 pounds ($6400 US) the Eigenharp is a musical behemoth is appropriately synthesized and touch responsive. It's got pressure-sensitive keys all over the place and ribbon controllers along with drum pads and other assorted noise makers that can be controlled through tapping, strumming or blowing.
Let me preface my quick review, admittedly based on the thin sample of the video at the above link, with the fact that I've been a piano player since age five, a guitar player since age twelve, and a sax player since age thirteen. This thing looks like a giant clusterfrak of a musical instrument surgery gone wrong.
I played synthesizers for years and while I originally loved the concept of the emulation that a synth provided, especially in its samples of other instruments, I grew to despise synths for trying to simulate organic sounds. I don't mind synths pulling off a fat square wave or a edgy sine swoop, but I now bristle at the sounds of sax or guitar coming out.
I understand that, in some cases, cost may be prohibitive for a young musician trying to express creativity. This overblown Casio beatbox funmaker is certainly a musical instrument, certainly requires talent, certainly facilitates a specific type of expression. If I can afford this thing, I could also certainly afford a saxophone, a grand piano, a bassoon, a guitar or a drum kit.
It's said that one of the reasons the creators conceived of such an instrument was to cut down on the massive amounts of gear they'd have to bring out to each show in order to play... here's an idea - buy a guitar and a pick and hit the local coffeeshop! I'd much rather hear a lone sax player who knows how to play sax, than a lone eigenharp player who knows how to play a sax sound on his eigenharp.
I'm sure there will be some people who love this and claim I'm some sort of musical Luddite for chastising what some news outlets will report as the future of musical instruments. Another thought from the linked article is that it looks like something from the Star Wars cantina scene. I suppose I would've happier if this was left a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Kudos to the creators for living their dream in executing the creation of this mutation. Their determination must have been dogged to complete the project. For 6000 bucks, however, I'd rather buy a new piano that sounds like [GASP] a piano.
For $168 it was def worth it! No complaints at all! Drinks, food apps were alll delish!
Waitor was very nice..have him a great tip...total bill=$200+ for 2 people! As I gotta say is YUM! I'll (bringing my parents here soon!! Mmmmm
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Ran my weekly expensive errand; now I'm at Carl's Jr awaiting nom a big carl combo. food
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Meet Dell’s New $2,000 Laptop from Wired
Check the post below which gives you some information about a super neat but also a super expensive laptop. It's the new launch by Dell. Try not drooling on your keyboard :)
Meet Dell’s New $2,000 Laptop
By Priya Ganapati September 29, 2009 | 12:42 am
About as slim as the Adamo (click here and click here to know more about Dell Adamo) and just half a pound heavier, Dell’s new ultra-thin laptop is a PC intended for business users who crave beauty and are willing to pay whatever it takes to get it.
At the basic level, the Dell Latitude Z is a notebook with a 16-inch HD display that runs Intel Core 2 Duo processor and offers a choice of up to two 256 GB solid state drives. It comes with multi-touch trackpad that supports gestures such as pinch and zoom.
But the device goes beyond that to offer some smooth features — a new kind of touchscreen, wireless charging and some solid security features.
Lets start with the touchscreen. Instead of a touchscreen display, the Latitude Z has touch functionality built along the frame of the notebook display. Sliding your fingers vertically along the frame pops up a tool bar that lets you choose common applications like email, photos, and camera.
The Latitude Z has a two megapixel camera that goes significantly beyond the traditional webcam function. Hold your business card in front of the camera and it scans the card and saves the information to Microsoft Outlook contacts. If you have a sheet of paper, you hold it in front of the camera and can choose to save it as a PDF.
The camera also has face-recognition capability. So, if turned on, it can detect when you step away from the computer and automatically lock the machine then.
Other security features include a fingerprint reader and contact less smart card reader so you can lock the computer by just waving your office badge over it.
Another interesting addition to the laptop is new hardware that supports a ‘Latitude On’ mode. The mode promises instant start up and offers always on connection to email, internet, contacts and calendar.
The idea is to bring the functionality of a BlackBerry that promises always synced email and calendar to a PC, says Steve Belt, vice president of business client engineering at Dell.
“We wanted to create something that would be the best of both worlds,” says Belt. “The Latitude On mode is fast and gives users gobs of battery life.”
In the ‘Latitude On’ mode, users don’t have access to all of Windows applications such as word processing and PowerPoint. Instead they can access e-mail and browse the internet with boot up times of less than a second. The trade off also brings with it extended battery life of up to 12 hours, says Dell.
Compare that to the idle mode of the laptop where boot up time can be a few seconds and emails are checked every few minutes. But then the battery life can extend up to two days. To switch back to Windows, users have to press a special power button on the laptop.
These are nifty features but the question is does it deserve the $2000 price tag — more than the Adamo? And if that’s not enough for a sticker shock, accessories such as wireless docking and an inductive charging stand will cost extra.
More photos of the Latitude Z
Two power buttons allow users to toggle between the ‘Latitude On’ mode and the regular Windows mode.
Did you know, Adamo means 'I fall in love with' in Latin. Feel free to click here to check the original source of this article.
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The world's most expensive soap
Plank’s Cor Soap retails at $125.00. Seriously?! For a 120-gram bar of soap?! It is a facial soap, but it is designed to basically do everything in your skincare regimen: revives, plumps, tones, balances, deep cleans, and heals surface skin. Supposedly the silver nano-particles of “Cor” soap react to sunlight like a film negative- and it develops!
My take on this is people have a tendency to buy expensive things because it’s the “best” and actually believe this nonsense… What about toxic allergens to metal??? I say do a double blind study with other beauty bars and see what ones work best!
If someone could get me one of these that would be awesome....
via uncrate.com
The Leica M9 is possibly one of the most beautiful cameras ever made. Sadly they are not cheap (£4,850) which is the same price as a decent second hand Ford Focus...
Still, you can't put a Ford Focus in your pocket, and like expensive watches there is something really cool about expensive cameras that is just unexplainable....
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Crap I forgot my grocery list at home in my hurry to go do my weekly expensive errand and eat vietnamese food
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Japanese launch $1,000 samurai iPhone cases | Crave - CNET (via @calvin_s)
via news.cnet.com
Way cool! That price tag at $1000 is way too much though. (But isn't that what makes it all the more exclusive?)
