KGS Bikes custom bicycles know nothing about the credit crunch

Tier 3

Luxury is something that could come your way in any form, and if it’s simply a two-wheeler, then it definitely needs your attention. Custom bicycles from the house of KGS Bikes seem to be a recession defying notion at the time when companies from all around the world have succumbed to the global financial meltdown. Maybe it’s a bad time to introduce luxury bicycles, but it doesn’t stop Kevin Saunders from rolling out the high-end custom bicycle “Tier 3” priced at a cool $30,000. The one-of-the-kind custom bicycle that costs almost equivalent to a car comes etched with fine woodwork and comfort riding that adds an immeasurable value to the buyer’s life. Apart from the highest priced bicycle, the manufacturer brings two relatively low-end versions - Tier 1 and Tier 2 – priced at $10,000 and $20,000, respectively. Saunders says his high-end KGS bicycles are as exclusive as a Lamborghini, Rolls Royce or Bugatti.


Tier 2

Tier 1

Via: PRWeb/KGSBikes

Factor001, world's most advanced superbike, rolls out for an amazing $27K+

When the world runs out of gas, we'll all be riding carbon fiber bicycles, weighing 15.4 pounds and hooking our bodies up to telemetry systems that rival the space program. With The Factor001, you don't have to wait for such inevitabilities — if you happen to have a spare $27,724 lying around, that is.

Designed by Formula One race car engineers at BERU F1 Systems, it's the most advanced bicycle in the world. You'd think it was a Ferrari, with its carbon ceramic brakes controlled by a hydraulic system, and then there's that flashy metallic finish. It's also packing a built-in GPS transmitter, and like a good Garmin Forerunner, gathers up "laboratory quality" biometric and performance data for you to peruse on your PC when you get home.

Besides all that, it looks so cool I thought it was some design-concept-y prototype bike. But no, it rolled out at London's Science Museum on March 11th, and is ready for prospective buyers to be measured up for this custom-fitted machine of the future. Now if they can just bring that price down to under $1000, I'm in (that is if some wealthy reader can loan me the cash).

Factor001 Press Release, via Inhabitat, Via Dvice.com

Riding on feathers with the most expensive bicycle wheel

Via LewRacing.com

Riding your bicycle with a wheel trimmed to suite your build is something any professional cyclist would cherish, for he would know what advantage it brings to him while riding. This however, does not mean that the Lew Racing Pro VT-1 tubular road wheel is meant only for pros, but yes, a price tag of upwards of $15,000 for a set can categorize you as one when you have it fixed.

The amazing thing is the weight of these wheels, which can get as light as low as 850g for a pair, based on how you furnish the details, which shouldn’t cite a wheel required for the higher terrains. The usage of boron in the rim surfaces gives the engineers over Lew Racing the ability to curb that weight to unbelievable limits, and it is the same fiber that places the wheel at a sky-high price, the highest in the world.

Weight Tubular Standard Set PRO VT-1 Both Front and Rear = 880 grams* (APPROVED RIDER WEIGHT < = 185lbs)

Weight Tubular Clydesdale PRO VT-1C Both Front and Rear = 1080 grams* (APPROVED RIDER WEIGHT < = 250lbs)

Interbike's Baddest Bikes: Time's New Road Rocket; The Talk of the Show

LAS VEGAS – French bike giant Time's brand new carbon road rocket, the RXR UL Team, is the talk of the Interbike show.

Cathing the 'Gotta Have One' bug will likely cost you upwards of $15,000, but what do expect for a bike handmade in France?

This state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line RXR UL is equipped with Campagnolo's Super Record 11 groupset.

Interbike's Baddest Bikes: Independent Fabrication's Cherry Road Bike

LAS VEGAS -- Independent Fabrication's high-end XS road bike is a wonder of titanium, carbon fiber and of all things -- cherry wood.

The XS features titanium lugs, carbon fiber tubes with a cherry wood finish.

Everything IF does is custom, so plan on laying down around $10,000 to $12,000

Interbike's Baddest Bikes: The Bike Batman Would Ride, Ceepo's Viper

LAS VEGAS – The Japanese aerodynamic specialist Ceepo said to hell with UCI rules when it designed and built this new Viper triathlon speed machine.

"If Batman rode a bike, this is the bike he would ride," said the gentleman manning Ceepo's booth.

Ceepo claims the carbon frame is the one of the thinnest in production, at only 26mm in the thickest spot of the down tube -- in reckless violation of UCI regulations.

Slice through the wind on the way home from the bike shop for a mere $8,000.

Interbike's Baddest Bikes: Delta 7's Ascend Latticework Carbon Roadie

Delta 7 Sports' Ascend road bike has definitely caught the bicycles fans' eyes at this year's Interbike 2008 because its distinctive wicker-basket carbon frame.

The bike's frame weighs just 1.8lbs! Thinner than the soup at the Riviera and more see-through than Casino odds, the Ascend's frame is a lattice of carbon fiber that Delta claims is ten times stronger than steel (by weight).

About the price, it will costs you about $12,000.

If money is no object, then this is the MTB for you...

Boasting the lightest full suspension frame in the world, the Scott Spark LTD Mountain Bike ($10,500) isn't your average set of wheels. At just 20.6 pounds, the Spark LTD packs the company's Centerpoint technology, offering three unique travel modes — lockout, traction mode, and all-travel mode — which can be switched on-the-fly via a TRACLOC handlebar-mounted switch. Lightweight and durable, it's ready to take on any trail you choose to ride.

Are you tired of your 'heavy' mountain bike? Check this out....

Looking for the lightest mountain or XC bike you can find? Then check out the Ibis Mojo SL ($3,900 and up).

It is quite pricey, but if you really 'need' a lighter bike, instead of losing a few more pounds (note: preaching to myself), then this machine is made just for you...

With a frame, swing arm, and rear shock assembly weighing less than five pounds, the complete bike weighs in at less than 22 pounds (Damn, that is lighter than my road bike!!!), and offers carbon fiber head cups, dropouts, and seat tube insert, DT Swiss XR Carbon shock and shock hardware, special, durable rubber paint, a carbon monocoque frame and swing arm, DW-Link Suspension, and much more.

Pretty sweet, if you can afford the price... Now where is that rich relative when you need one? Any rich folks out there who want to adopt? I will gladly offer up myself, it will only cost you few sweet bikes.... LOL

Something Special For All of Us Coffee and Carbon Fiber Whores

Well it was bound to happen, someone else has finally had the same fanatsies as I have....

Schmolke Carbon (Germany) has created some sweet carbon-fiber gifts for those of us who desire carbon...

They have created a capuccino-cup with saucer and coffee spoon, cup, beermug, Bavarian beermug, tea- or coffee-cup with saucer and coffee spoon, vases and other cool stuff...

With the current exchanges rates, these items are very pricey for Americans (unless you have a stash of Euros hidden away) right now, but Christmas IS coming!

€ 99.-249.