handcrafted fixed gear bike by WLWC is wrapped in black crocodile skin
fixed gear bike by WLWC is wrapped in black crocodile skin
all images courtesy watch life with curiosity
originating from the concept of reclaiming mass produced and generic objects by re-issuing them as individual and unique pieces, paris-based watch life with curiosity – otherwise known as WLWC – have handcrafted a fixed gear bike using an unusual material selection for its cladding: four reclaimed crocodile skins. requiring over 90 hours to build, and priced at over 20,000 USD, recycled reptile scales wrap the facade of the lightweight aluminum frame, cinelli handlebars, carbon fiber saddle, hand machined titanium brakes and bespoke pedals.
the bespoke fixed-gear bike required over 90 hours to build
8 year old crocodile skin wraps the lightweight aluminum frame, handlebar, saddle, brakes and pedals
the artisan-crafted bike is priced at over 20,000 USD
detail of the skin wrap on the forks and frame
seat detail
detail
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Absolutely ridiculous. But then again, the person buying this will probably never ride it anyways.
for 20k i’d have expected carbon rather than ali…
this is totally wrong, and not ok to be going about creating bikes. Isn’t the one of the points to be riding bikes eco friendly?
always think these exotic leather wrapped bikes are pretty hilarious. you take a really crappy taiwanese aluminum frame, slap some non-matching, expensive components on it and mark it up 500%. 90 hours to build, eh? does that include the time to skin and process the gators?
what gets me about design blogs (really exceptional blogs too, such-as designboom) having posts about bicycles, is that 99% of the time the bike featured has little to nothing to do with the community of cyclist that are doing innovative and actually interesting bicycles.
its a rather ugly frame, bad welds, bad geometry, cheap drop outs. and then the components on the bike (the 15 degree upwards stem and the 30mm offset seat post) totally negate the point of a track geometry.
agree with above..20k and complete carbon fibre build? no disc brakes? and can’t say the croc skin add anything alluring either…90 hours to build.
Fail
Fetish bike.
Ask the crocodile to “watch life with curiosity”. totally wrong.