Bling Bling! Biggest joke of a bike ever?

http://www.bikeforall.net/news.php?articleshow=703

here's the bog standard :)

http://www.enigmabikes.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=19

This thread is useless without pics!

your wish is my desire

Me Julie has an Omega Shadow WSD, not sure she would approve if I blinged it up though.

Plus it might prove expensive, and I have more pressing black holes to throw my cash down.

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IT's more about the upgrade though :)

"Jeweller Nicholas James of Hatton Garden was requested by a customer to stud a titanium-framed bike with diamonds as a surprise wedding anniversary gift."

"We were slightly taken aback by the customer's brief to marry his wife's two loves: cycling and fine gems. However, it was such an exciting project, we simply couldn't refuse the challenge."

The newly 'blinged' frame has now been returned to Enigma for the final finishing touches including a mirror finish and 18ct gold decals.

sounds bloody ridiculous - who would marry such an idiot?

That's nice.
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*pukes on flaming gold-plated diamond encrusted cock

The ways of the rich are not to be understood by you or I.

On the face of it this looks like an exercise in both stupidity and bad taste, but then some people coat the magnesium wheels of their McClaran F1's with diamonds.

Money is no substitute for taste.

She'll leave it cable-locked outside the opera.

That's nice.
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*pukes on flaming gold-plated diamond encrusted cock and eats jar of gold flake to shit in own hand to rub into cock puke

edscoble inspired adjustment

its already £2.4k...what a fuckin dumbass gesture. hope he gets the frame size wrong

As if that 'll matter, it's ruined anyway.

She'll leave it cable-locked outside the opera.

She probably has private security following her round to look after it.

Wait, sorry if I'm a tad slow on the uptake here, but if they're 'setting' the stones in the frame, does that not mean they're making lots of little holes in it? Which is... a bad thing?

Jesus, what would you do with it anyway? Take one expensive useful thing, turn it into an extremely expensive useless thing. I don't get it.

Wait, sorry if I'm a tad slow on the uptake here, but if they're 'setting' the stones in the frame, does that not mean they're making lots of little holes in it? Which is... a bad thing?

Jesus, what would you do with it anyway? Take one expensive useful thing, turn it into an extremely expensive useless thing. I don't get it.

Yeah, little holes would be a bad thing but I'm guessing (as a jeweler by trade) the stones were probably set in plates or in individual strips of heads then applied by way of solder or the like to the frame after setting, thus not harming the integrity of the frame.

For a time many years back I did pass the time casting custom head badges and valve stem covers for cycle and auto enthusiasts.... occasionally with stones. I first set stones in the parts then applied them to the bikes.

Ive personally set stones in brake levers, stems, cage and misc. screws and seat posts using the plate method. I cant imagine anyone drilling a frame for pave setting..... there would be nothing left of the frame..... worse than Swiss cheese.