1/5/15 6:40 PM

Reported price about $400k (underneath the plating it's an ordinary aluminium-framed Giant):

1/5/15 10:01 PM

A fool and his money......

1/5/15 10:37 PM

I wonder how much it weights?

I also didn't realize Giant make aluminum frames at all!

1/6/15 5:44 AM

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.

1/6/15 6:41 AM

...they could at least figure out how to gold plate carbon fiber! ;-)

1/6/15 8:15 AM

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.

1/6/15 8:46 AM

There's only one person who could ride that and look right: Mario Cipollini.

1/6/15 12:05 PM

"could ride that and look right"

Or 3CPO... OR C3PO even... ;)

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1/6/15 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.

1/7/15 6:46 AM

Sparky - It's "C3PO"

J.S. - The frame is gold-plated aluminum

1/7/15 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.

1/8/15 8:13 AM

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.

1/8/15 11:12 AM

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I wonder if when they market the bike, if they pounce it gold plated al-i-min-i-um, with a heavy British accent..

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1/8/15 11:16 AM

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Just don't go discussing billions around the world--it can mean thousands of different things.

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1/8/15 12:25 PM

So then how much is a bazillion? :)

1/8/15 2:33 PM

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...

1/8/15 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.

1/8/15 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