Ridiculously overpriced...

Are you kidding! £12,500! You can get a Super Record equipped Team Machine for about £4500 how can lack of paint, black components and slightly fancier wheels amount to £8,000? I bet you could build that exact same bike for less than half that price by doing it yourself.

It looks like what couriers do to their bikes to stop kids nicking them.

They'll still sell them.

You can get a perfectly good watch for £9.99. That doesn't stop people spending stupid money on them. I think it's great that the same thing's happening with bikes. It's time bikes were raised above the status of tools.

Hh, their watches are overpriced crap, and so is this bike.

I'm not convinced turning bikes into designer accessories is good for cycling at all!!

Ok - I like a bike to look good - but it should be form following function with some tastfully chosen paint and graphics.

And chunks - Bikes to any enthusiast are not tools! Our rides are our rides and they are often maticulously looked after, invested in and loved (in a manly, butch man and his dog type way ;-) ). It doesnt have to have a silly hyperinflated price tag to make it good.

Besides, I doubt whether for all that green you going to get a bike that out performs any of the current top of the line bikes at under half the price...

Not keen, thats without looking at the price, which is shockingly high.

That's as stupid as the Ferrari Colnagos.

I think it's ugly and I own 2 bmcs

littleorangechunks, it's not the money itself that annoys me about this one it's the fact that the extra £8000 buys you nothing more than a label. It's just a black paint job and slightly better wheels on a standard machine. If they had made some advances with the frame design or something I'd see the point but as it stands you could buy a standard machine, have Atlantic Boulevard paint it, stick on some DT RRC Aeros or some Lightweights and you'd have a bike that looked and performed identically to this one and save about £6000. This thing brings bikes down to the level of designer handbags.

Bring on the Breitling full-susser I say :-)

I like it! Alot, actually, but not for £12,500!!!

I'll not be buying one, but I'll happily drool over it if I see one (HIGHLY unlikely...).

System-

it's not the components or the paint that raises the price. It's the fact that it is a limeted edition of only 30 bike commissioned by a company that makes over priced watches.