Mercedes-Benz Revs Into Bicycles

BOOOOOOOO!!!!

God how ridiculous!

That reminds me of when Volkswagen partnered with Trek to make the “Jetta Bikes” – and I believe Porsche had a line of mountain bikes for a while. But Mercedes-Benz, that’s a big whoa! Rotwild… I like the red kid’s bike. I wonder if they’ll build their road version with Shimano or Campy or SRAM… We’ll be fun to see them when they hit the market.

I really don’t think those bikes could be taken for anything else than overbuilt design exercises, with exception of the road model. I still remember the BMW tank made in the early years of this century… They tried to place in a bicycle all the technologies they had in their motorcycles at the moment… And the results were not only unpractical, but also hideous!

I’m still wondering why the major car brands think their industrial designers, so specifically devoted to the automobile world, could desing an efficient and beautiful bike. It’s like they don’t understand how far something considered beautiful in a car is from something we like in the bike world… They seem to think there’s no “gap”, like every desing line can be transparently exported from a car to a bike…

The only excercise of such kind I can think of as being succesful are the [url=https://bikerumor.com/2010/10/14/interbike-2010-beautiful-f-1-tribute-bikes-from-intense/]Intense F1 models[/url]. And they have one key idea in their desings: they don’t ditch ANY major bike feature in favor of some bad taste car reminiscenses…

Many European car companies were making bicycles before they moved into manufacturing motorcars. It seems logical that with congestion in many towns and cities that someone might want to park out of town and continue his journey into town riding his Mercedes bike.