Anatomy of a Photo: Lemon Leather

$27,250 for leathery hipness

All I can do is quote @michael:

$27,250 for this POS. Don’t know if it’s worth an article or just a post, but for that price, I’d like my really cheap saddle set back properly.

The beautiful thing for us is that an Anatomy of a Photo piece can almost be the same as a post, which makes talking about such abominations easy. Helps put @Jeff in PetroMetro‘s $3300 Look 595 in perspective.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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mightyninja says:

Feb 12 2011 at 7:21 pm

Jeff in PetroMetro:
Really? For that? The saddle better be made from the foreskin of a white rhino and the paint pigment from Lance's pee tests.

+1

Also, WTF is that? I would hesitate to actually use the word "bicycle" or "bike" to describe this, as I feel it does a true injustice to the the entire sport, cyclists & anyone with an ounce of taste or style.

But then again, matching it with @Marko's posterior man satchel pic & may be even the Yellow Princesses (no disrespect meant to the Mavic's Marko, just thought they would match the outfit, sorry yellow piece of shit, sorry thing loosely being described as a bike) & they would look super leading Sydney's Mardi Gras parade later this month.
Nate says:

Feb 12 2011 at 7:30 pm

@Buck Rogers
Spot on. Het Nieuwsblad can't get here soon enough, can it?
Jeff in PetroMetro says:

Feb 12 2011 at 7:39 pm

Team kit?
mightyninja says:

Feb 12 2011 at 7:51 pm

Sorry, that's disrespectful to the Mardi Gras, the Yellow Princesses & even the yellow European posterior man satchel.
In hindsight, it (i.e. the yellow POS) is pretty much disrespectful to these pages. I withdraw all further comments by myself as the more I think about it the less should be said, but seriously $27K for that..... what is the world coming to?
mightyninja says:

Feb 12 2011 at 8:30 pm

Geoffrey Grosenbach:
At least it doesn't have a rivet in the soft bits like this $60k custom goth leather TT bike.

Well at least reading through the comments on that POS, Cervelo disown any "collaboration" with the so called designer!
Niek says:

Feb 13 2011 at 12:22 am

Frank is laughing his ass off right now as we all should!
He's just f*cking with our minds, can't you see?!
I bet he has himself locked up in his Merckx shrine and lighted by scented candles ofcourse, is working on another one of his fine writings!
minion says:

Feb 13 2011 at 12:48 am

Brett:
A water buffalo died for that? The bike isn't the piece of shit, Williams is.

+1. I'm trying to imagine the guy at the counter, cards out, about to fork out 27k for that thing. And taking his money, as soon as the card clears ripping the shit out of him. Take it to Pharrell's house and you'll be BFFs.
Pedale.Forchetta says:

Feb 13 2011 at 6:48 am

That yellow thing has nothing to do with a bicycle.
Cyclops says:

Feb 13 2011 at 7:25 am

That bike represents everything that is wrong with the world. Trendy greed will be the undoing of humanity. One of the first signs of the Apocalypse will be cyclocross bike from Wal Mart.
Jeff in PetroMetro says:

Feb 13 2011 at 8:02 am

Cyclops :
That bike represents everything that is wrong with the world. Trendy greed will be the undoing of humanity. One of the first signs of the Apocalypse will be cyclocross bike from Wal Mart.

So true. That's when I take up curling. Or javelin catching.