New Mercedes-Benz Bicycles

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Apr 6th 2006 at 9:03AM

Ready for a step up from the Cadillac bikes we covered a while back? Check out the sleek carbon fiber racing bike from Mercedes-Benz. The bike has high-end components from Japanese supplier Shimano and the shift levers are in the ergonomically shaped brake handles. The bike has Michelin tires with a low number of spokes to cut down on turbulence. There will be 199 of the bikes and they cost around $3,664. For more laidback types there is also the Mercedes automatic bike which has a Shimano Cyber-Nexus automatic shifting unit, and an onboard computer which sells for around $2,320 with a lighting system and luggage rack or $2,074 for the no-frills version. There are also two fitness bikes which sell for around $1583 each and a mountain bike that sells for $2,197. More pictures at eMercedesBenz.

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