Most expensive bike?

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What is the most expensive bike you have heard about?

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What is the most expensive bike you have heard about?

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In recent memory there was the Bianchi Ducati Corse which I think was around $15K, but I can't
remember if that was AUD. May have actually been USD.

But in that case price doesn't reflect quality. It reflects the willingness of buyers to pay that
much and/or the level of profit desired by the manufacturer/seller.

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Nick

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What is the most expensive bike you have heard about?

My mate showed me a $30, 000USD _FRAME_ once... Made of Beryllium I think... <googling> 200x the
price of aluminium and its dust can kill you!

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Not the 'most' expensive but a bloody lot of money is the new Limited Edition Trek Madone for
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What is the most expensive bike you have heard about?

My mate showed me a $30, 000USD _FRAME_ once... Made of Beryllium I think... <googling> 200x the
price of aluminium and its dust can kill you!

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Beryllium is an interesting material. From

http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/4.html:

Atomic Number: 4
Atomic Symbol: Be
Atomic Weight: 9.01218
Electron Configuration: [He]2s2

History
(Gr. beryllos, beryl; also called Glucinium or Glucinum, Gr. glykys, sweet) Discovered as the oxide by Vauquelin in beryl and in emeralds in 1798. The metal was isolated in 1828 by Wohler and by Bussy independently by the action of potassium on beryllium chloride.

Sources
Beryllium is found in some 30 mineral species, the most important of which are bertrandite, beryl, chrysoberyl, and phenacite. Aquamarine and emerald are precious forms of beryl. Beryl and bertrandite are the most important commercial sources of the element and its compounds. Most of the metal is now prepared by reducing beryllium fluoride with magnesium metal. Beryllium metal did not become readily available to industry until 1957.

Properties
The metal, steel gray in color, has many desirable properties. As one of the lightest of all metals, it has one of the highest melting points of the light metals. Its modulus of elasticity is about one third greater than that of steel. It resists attack by concentrated nitric acid, has excellent thermal conductivity, and is nonmagnetic. It has a high permeability to X-rays and when bombarded by alpha particles, as from radium or polonium, neutrons are produced in the amount of about 30 neutrons/million alpha particles.

At ordinary temperatures, beryllium resists oxidation in air, although its ability to scratch glass is probably due to the formation of a thin layer of the oxide.

Uses
Beryllium is used as an alloying agent in producing beryllium copper, which is extensively used for springs, electrical contacts, spot-welding electrodes, and non-sparking tools. It is applied as a structural material for high-speed aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, and communication satellites. Other uses include windshield frame, brake discs, support beams, and other structural components of the space shuttle.

Because beryllium is relatively transparent to X-rays, ultra-thin Be-foil is finding use in X-ray lithography for reproduction of micro-miniature integrated circuits.

Beryllium is used in nuclear reactors as a reflector or moderator for it has a low thermal neutron absorption cross section.

It is used in gyroscopes, computer parts, and instruments where lightness, stiffness, and dimensional stability are required. The oxide has a very high melting point and is also used in nuclear work and ceramic applications.

Handling
Beryllium and its salts are toxic and should be handled with the greatest of care. Beryllium and its compounds should not be tasted to verify the sweetish nature of beryllium (as did early experimenters). The metal, its alloys, and its salts can be handled if certain work codes are observed, but no attempt should be made to work with beryllium before becoming familiar with proper safeguards.

Furthermore, cuts and scratches contaminated with beryllium and its compounds don't heal. It also propigates sound faster than any other material: 28,860 mph. Mach 1 in air is 740 mph. For steel it's 11,630. Water, 3351 mph.

Why would anyone want to ride toxic waste?

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Posted thisa few weeks bakc. O'Grady's 1997 TdF bike for AU $ 29,500 at Trak cycles in
Southland, Melbourne

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Posted thisa few weeks bakc. O'Grady's 1997 TdF bike for AU $ 29,500 at Trak cycles in Southland,
Melbourne

What is the most expensive non-limited edition, non-special edition, standard "production" bike
out there?

Oh, by the way.. My Peugeot is on sale. You can have it for, um.. $30 billion

hippy
- do i win?
- no points for $30bil + $1, etc. either :-P

$12,000 itlian one..

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Posted thisa few weeks bakc. O'Grady's 1997 TdF bike for AU $ 29,500 at Trak cycles in
Southland, Melbourne

What is the most expensive non-limited edition, non-special edition, standard "production" bike
out there?

Oh, by the way.. My Peugeot is on sale. You can have it for, um.. $30 billion

hippy
- do i win?
- no points for $30bil + $1, etc. either :-P

I had a Peugot for quite a while - great bike. Totalled it by riding down St Kilda rd in torrential
rain. The council kindly put a barrier across the cycling lane with no lights.

Look up... Head out of the rain... Look up... Head out of the rain... Loo...
Sssshhh!!!!!ttttttt!!!!!!

Hit it with my road bike, bent the front wheel in half, the frame had crumple zones, broke the
wooden barrier in two. Flipped over the front of the bike and landed on my [censored]!

Tim

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Hit it with my road bike, bent the front wheel in half, the frame had crumple zones, broke the
wooden barrier in two. Flipped over the front of the bike and landed on my [censored]!

Ooooh.. nasty! Gee, if it's not cars gettin' in our way....

Don't wanna buy mine for >$30kUSD so I can claim to have owned the most expensive bike? Mmm new
Cervelo... ;-)

hippy