If you’ve bought a bicycle lately, especially if you’re shopping for a high-end, lightweight two-wheeler, some of the prices might have given you sticker shock. In the case of the PG Bugatti fixie – a fixed single-speed bicycle – you will pay USD 40,000 (RM176,580) and PG won’t let you ride out to show-off to your buddies.
Working together with bicycle designers PG – who count Orlando Bloom, Lady Gaga, Christoph Waltz and Bryan Adams as customers – Bugatti has commissioned 667 examples of this carbon-fibre framed fixie, designed to match the Bugatti Chiron. What sets this bicycle apart is it is touted to be the lightest bicycle in the world, at below five kg.
Manufacturing of the PG Bugatti is done in Germany by Bernd Kussmaul, and the rest of the builder’s list reads like a who’s who of the European bicycle industry, including carbon wheel specialists Lightweight, component maker THM-Carbones and Schmolke Carbone. The frame of the PG Bugatti is built by Italian Formula 1 carbon-fibre experts Merelli.
“We had the vision of building the ultimate bicycle to go with the ultimate car. Ultimate in design, workmanship and performance,” says PG chief executive officer Manuel Ostner. Upon request, customers of the supercar builder can have their bicycles matched to their own Bugattis.
This extends to special paints, carbon-fibre in various colours and numerous types of leather. The caveat though, as the PG Bugatti is the “lightest special urban bike in the world”, PG’s websites states “the special bike is a piece of sports equipment which is not intended to be used on public roads.”
Useless extremely overpriced piece of junk.
Oh look, a poor pessimist. Its no denying tht its overpriced but thats not a piece of junk
Not to be show off to friends.Instead to be kept in the glass almari.
Hmm if I have RM180k shall I get a Bugatti bike or a Ducati Panigale? RM176k vs Rm172k
Nah, I am confident I will be happier with the “DU” and not the “BU”, can’t buy it anyways. The Panigale will give me more fun and adrenaline rush :)
When you’re filthy rich, you don’t need to apply logic to your purchases.
its like having a car but you are not allowed to show it off….what kind of logic is that
when you are rich as fck and got nothing better to spend your money on!
So its basically a useless, ridiculously overpriced fake bicycle.
Porsche one nicer.
Bros, if U think this PG Bugatti fixie at USD 40,000 is expensive. U all should visit 10 Outrageously Expensive Bikes | Bicycling. The Solid Gold 24K Gold Extreme Mountain Bike cost a cool 1,000,000
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“Wow. So… Hi, I see that you are very rich.”
A fixie bike at just under 5kg is still heavy. My Cannondale Supersix road bike weights around 7kg mark, and that bike has to accomodate more equipments (such as rear cassettes, front chainrings set, derailleurs, cables, brakes, drop bar etc) compared to this “empty” fixie bike.
The ridiculous world we live in today
Expensive, never mind. It is only money. But cannot ride it outside? What is the point then? If I buy it, it is mine, shouldn’t I be able to do anything I want with it?
Likely because the photo shows it doesn’t have any brakes!
My cervelo s5 is not as light and expensive as this but I’m sure my 11 speed shimano dura ace will make me faster on hill climbs and flat road. I will have extra money to buy lotsa equipment and a nice meal too.
Sure, I make a kapchai and put a Bugatti logo on it, and I’m rich af