A new bike from renowned Danish product design brand Normann Copenhagen. Single speed, north road bars, hub brakes, a sure nod to the Guvnor. Though perhaps not to everyone’s taste, there’s plenty to admire. More details and pictures on Yatzer
Normann Copenhagen
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Nice attempt…. 1600 euros….. I’d stick with old faithful me’ thinks!
Chaps, take a gander at the designer, Anne Lehman… tottie indeed!
Ride on!
What Ho, chaps,
Nice looking steed, but,..and with The Toff there’s always a “but’,……That was a product of a Design House?,…..I have “designed”,..better looking, and better equipped bikes than that effort in my shed whilst still at prep school.
Forgive me,…but all I see is a bog-standard,lugless, steel(?) frame, with less than exciting components and a set of North Road bars, which would retail at a handsome profit for 500 euros.
I presume that the “designer premium”, is for the application of the vomit-inducing
accents to the saddle and grips.
Sorry, but it’s not my cup of Oolong,…and in case PhotoJohnnie is wondering,….I am not tottie.
Just found a much preferable colourway:
Well, the bike has been the perfect example of form-and-function for about a century. And usually when someone tries to ‘improve’ it they mess it up. Especially if the someone is a designer. This is not opinion, it is fact – the internet is littered with images of ‘designer bikes’ which are rubbish. Green chain? No thanks..
But (and there is always a ‘but’) I do like the 1 inch tooth spacings on the chainwheel, and I confess I have been planning for a month now to do the same with a grinder and file to an old chainwheel for my BSA once I get home to NZ.
Evening Gentlemen,
An interesting point regarding “designed” bikes a person only has to look at a “Porsche” or “Ferrari” bike that occasionally come to light.
A possible exception is a “Paul Smith” bike although this is the exception rather than the rule, Paul Smith has a long history with bikes and is a keen cyclist, the other points and a lot more relevant, he has the sense to leave the design of the bikes to Mercian and sticks to the Colour Ways.
Regards,
Adam
For fine design, one might do worse than http://www.bertellibici.com/
Not exactly the Guvnor aesthetic, but a thoroughbred nonetheless.
http://www.bertellibici.com/product.php?works_id=116
http://www.bertellibici.com/product.php?works_id=112
BELLA!
Bellezza in bicicletta personificata, eh?
Cavalcare!
A volte si ottiene ciò che si paga.
Vero. Ma si vive una volta. Vivere bene!
Cavalcare!
Molto vero signore, molto vero.