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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia1/5/15 6:40 PM |
For those with no taste and too much money
Reported price about $400k (underneath the plating it's an ordinary aluminium-framed Giant):
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA1/5/15 10:01 PM |
Yes
A fool and his money......
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC1/5/15 10:37 PM |
I wonder how much it weights?
I also didn't realize Giant make aluminum frames at all!
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine1/6/15 5:44 AM |
Sweet
I'd like to get one for my CT, but how does gold stand up to sweat?
Actually I couldn't get one, I qualify under the first of Nick's criteria for ownership, but unfortunately not the second.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH1/6/15 6:41 AM |
For that price...
...they could at least figure out how to gold plate carbon fiber! ;-)
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area1/6/15 8:15 AM |
plating on plastics
already possible. i had a colnago star fork "chrome plated" in this fashion.
it's a multi-part coating process w/ clear-coat protection, that ends up brighter than any metal chrome finish i've seen.
after getting it coated, i ended up sanding it all back off...doh! that led to useless arms for a couple weeks afterward as i abused both rotator-cuffs with all the hours of meticulous hand-sanding action.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct1/6/15 8:46 AM |
There's only one person who could ride that and look right: Mario Cipollini.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX1/6/15 12:05 PM |
"could ride that and look right"
Or 3CPO... OR C3PO even... ;)
Last edited by Sparky on 1/7/15 7:05 AM; edited 1 time in total
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven1/6/15 7:29 PM |
Maybe it is worth the money...the last frame you will ever need to buy, because unlike steel, it never goes soft and it is stiff, yet compliant..that is with the proper karat selection. And if you crash it, we'll have you ever tried to melt down titanium or AL? No thank you. And carbon fiber is just so yesterday. That plus it simply does not have the luster and chick appeal that gold does.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH1/7/15 6:46 AM |
A couple of corrections
Sparky - It's "C3PO"
J.S. - The frame is gold-plated
aluminum
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven1/7/15 9:12 PM |
Duh. <slaps head>. I got carried away.
I wonder if when they market the bike, if they pounce it gold plated al-i-min-i-um, with a heavy British accent...similar to the old marketing scheme of Jag-you-are. That is to make the product that much more shi shi foo foo.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT1/8/15 8:13 AM |
Aluminium is what it is.
Both terms are apparently acceptable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
Just don't go discussing billions around the world--it can mean thousands of different things.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct1/8/15 11:12 AM |
quote:
I wonder if when they market the bike, if they pounce it gold plated al-i-min-i-um, with a heavy British accent..
That should be al-you-min-ee-um, accent on the min.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct1/8/15 11:16 AM |
quote:
Just don't go discussing billions around the world--it can mean thousands of different things.
Or two things, actually: a thousand million, as in the usual American usage, or a million million in British usage, what Americans would call a trillion.
I think the Brits have pretty much been forced to conform to the American way now.
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rickhardy
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1492
Location: Needham outside of Boston - the hub of the universe1/8/15 12:25 PM |
Question
So then how much is a bazillion? :)
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT1/8/15 2:33 PM |
So...
So, "a million" can mean a thousand things--or, to be more precise (as pointed out above) a thousand things. A thousand thousands.
Granted, the last document I looked at that used "billions" in the 10^12 rather than 10^9 sense was probably 40 years old...
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven1/8/15 7:36 PM |
I've never heard an American pronounce it ali-MIN-i-um, at least not here in the northeast. If I did I certainly would remember such a tosser and not confuse him for a Brit.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX1/8/15 8:34 PM |
I had a Friend and roomate from New Zealand. Second year his younger became a room mate with us as well.
So I heard that at lot with the Alu-min-ee-um pronunciation for a few...
Until they got more Mur-acan-ized...
I used to rent houses after my first apt. So we had to have the room mates due to cost. 4 was the average...
The 12 room mansion in Framingham. MA was 6 of us.
No southern Hemi-mates Up Thar though...
Yada
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