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BMC Impec Lamborghini Edition

BMC Impec Lamborghini Edition is not a new bike, revealed a few months ago, in April 2012. But it is still one of the best “automobile branded” bikes ever produced.

In recent years several luxury automobile marques like Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, and McLaren have added their name and design sensibilities to human-powered transport: the bicycle. And Italian supercar producer Lamborghini has joined the list last year.

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Special Bicycles Bicycles and Equipment Cycling and Music, Cinema, Art

Sedona Istanbul

Sedona Istanbul is a concept road bike produced by Turkish bicycle manufacturer Sedona. Artworks on the frame are drawn by Aydan Çelik, a friend of mine.

The artworks on the frame are some historical and cultural details of Istanbul: buildings, boats, bridges, etc.

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Special Bicycles Bicycles and Equipment Classic/Retro bicycles

Colnago Master 2013 (30th-anniversary edition)

Colnago Master 2013: the 30th Anniversary of Colnago’s classic bicycle Colnago Master is celebrated with a re-release of the classic frame. Originally designed 30 years ago, the Colnago Master is a truly timeless road bike, a complete work of art.

It is first produced in the mid-1980s to be one of the world’s best road racing bikes. With its brilliant ride quality, astonishing good looks, and Italian craftsmanship, it is still relevant today. Colnago Master 30th edition is a summation of the craft and passion of the Italian marque.

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Colnago-Ferrari CF8

Colnago-Ferrari CF8 edition is equipped with Campagnolo’s electronic groupset Campagnolo Super Record EPS. It also has a new red and white look and will be produced in a limited edition of 200 pieces.

The 2012 edition of Colnago-Ferrari CF8 was equipped with Shimano’s high-end electronic groupset Dura-Ace Di2. After Italian bicycle components manufacturer Campagnolo has revealed its EPS electronic shifting system, CF8 started being equipped with the new groupset.

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Graeme Obree’s first test run with “the Beastie” – the land speed record vehicle

Graeme Obree (see notes 1), “The Flying Scotsman” is working on a plan to attempt the human-powered land speed record in a machine of his own design for a while. Last week, he tested the vehicle, “Beastie”, in preparation to break the human-powered land speed record.

On the development of a shell for “the Beastie” (see notes 2), Obree has been working with a team of Product Design Engineering students at the Glasgow School of Art. He did his first test run in the Beastie last week, on Thursday 15th November at Machrihanish airport in Scotland. A photographer from the website Humans Invent, Camille McMillan was there to take photos. There’s an article on the Humans Invent website about the test.

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Special Bicycles Bicycles and Equipment Tour de France

Peter Sagan’s Cannondale SuperSix Evo Tourminator

Peter Sagan, the young Slovakian rider of team Liquigas-Cannondale has made a Tour de France debut this year and won the sprinter’s green jersey. He used a custom-design Cannondale Evo, nicknamed “Tourminator” while achieving this success.

The US-based bicycle company Cannondale supplies bikes to the world-tour team Liquigas-Cannondale. For Peter Sagan, they have pulled out the stops with an impressive rendition of the Terminator (the cyborg assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the classic 1984 science-fiction film) across the front of the team’s SuperSix Evo Hi-Mod.

Despite Tour de France being a race where the very latest products are usually raced, the Liquigas-Cannondale team was on the current Evo, not the new and lighter Evo Nano. The new Evo Nano cuts about 40 grams using an improved carbon-fiber layup.