Peeped at the Death Spray Custom blog, a project they’ve just finished with Cinelli: a version of one of the Italian company’s super lightweight carbon RAM 2 handlebars. Entitled ‘Hand to Mouth’, for obvious reasons, its difficult to see at first glance how Death Spray Custom achieved it – some sort of collage and clearcoat arrangement perhaps?
It sort of reminds me of the creature from Pan’s Labyrinth, or something from a David Cronenberg film. Not the sort of thing I’d want to be wrestling up a hill… but that’s probably not the point! Aside from this one-off, there’s a range of RAM 2 designs, and the whole project harks back to the cool interchangeable panels on the Cinelli Alter stems from 1999. Here’s a few, but some of the others are decidely NSFW.
The Death Spray Custom site has more pics, and their other work is worth a look too. They’ve also got a cool love/hate thing going on on some Nitto track bars, and a bicycle decorated with human hair – bizarre, but actually quite elegant.
