I'm normally a fan of these track bike collaborations but this one just seems to shout "Mr. Me Too" from the mountain tops and is both hideous and ridiculously overpriced. Kid Robot just opened a flagship store in Miami and got together with that guy at Nemesis Project to create the most overpriced embarrassment to cycling since, since....well I can't really remember. The bike costs $6,000 and the wheels don't even match. Let me repeat that...it costs SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS. This sets a new standard in "Shit we think people might buy because our cool brand got together with some obscure brand and the result is this jaw dropping kick-in-the-nuts to capitalism."
I apologize for the rash of highly critical posts on here lately. The holiday season brings tons of new products and that means for every great product comes a small group of embarrassing ones. Out of all those we get an even fewer number of products that can only be described as "offensive." This is one of them. They call this bike a "one-off piece of art." I object to the word art being in there, but on the other hand it's a good thing they only made one.
Thanks to Highsnobiety for the photos.
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