Bike Blazer Featured in New Lands’ End Pop-Up Shop, Not Available In Sears…Yet

The dude with the fancy jacket, listening to his music on a fancy phone –

all while riding a thrift store clunker bike is unrealistically mismatched.

when your blazer is worth more than your bike that you love riding so much you bought a bicycling specific blazer that costs more than your bike

Justin look closer,I bet that clunker like bike may actually be a 100% italian made steel bike assembled by a 150 years old guy that has been welding bikes since he was 5 in his grandpa workshop facing Como’s lake. The bike weighs 25 kilos and cost as much as Toyota Prius and it’s so rare you can’t just decide to buy one,you have to be chosen by the supreme Gods of Hipsteria and see if you are worthy.
PS : the guy also owns a Toyota Prius.

Here is another cool bike commuting video from the Netherlands- (looks like no one wears a helmet there either, but when you don’t have to ride with cars, you probably don’t need one)
http://www.wimp.com/rushhour/

Am I the only one that cannot wear “street clothes” during their commute?

I ride 20 miles round trip to work and home. I end up either sweating too much (a ton of hills on my commute, gets pretty hot in the summer), getting way too wet 3/4 of the year (Portland weather) or way too dirty (bike lanes are rarely cleaned in the winter).

I really don’t believe you can have to much functional commuter wear. However, would someone please make a portable shower for cycling commuter? There are too many businesses that don’t have showers in the facilities.

People are strange:
Whats wrong with riding a cheaper / older bike to work when it would be locked to a pole all day out in the rain? Are you really gonna leave your Di2 Foil locked outside all day? In this regard I find the video somewhat realistic.
And the rest of you helmet nazis please never complain about your nanny-state again, it makes your agruments moot.

Love,
Gringo

I agree with Sevo on this one, if more companies try to crack this segment of the market, prices should eventually come down. If someone like H+M goes for it, prices may come down even faster. This would be a great product for about 40% of our shop customers in Cambridge, MA. There’s a big number of fashion conscious professionals out here who ride 15 or fewer miles to work each day and I think this would be a good fit.

Also, I think “Lands’ End never fails to push the boundaries in mail order shopping.” is the the funniest lede I’ve read here in months.

Way too pricy for a blazer that will be enduring dirty conditions (i.e. – mud, rain, dust, snow, sweat). Not even my Armani blazer cost that much. Though I have to admit the style looks really nice – normally, the styling of Lands Ends products always makes me cringe.