Mon 15 Jun 2009
Specialized Brings Pre-Fabbed Ghost Bikes To A Shop Near You!
Posted by Will under biking, commerce, updated
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Urban Velo and Wired’s Gadget Lab blog are reporting that Specialized is not only hopping on the readymade fixed-gear blandwagon, but the bikemaker has apparently opted to deliver the “cheap” Globe Roll 2 ($800) and Roll 1 ($600) already color-schemed as a “Ghost Bike” either because Specialized has no clue what they’ve done — or perhaps the better to minimize delays in installing the bike as a memorial wherever the hipster noob-rider gets killed at on it.
Stupidity or genius. Either way amazing.
UPDATE (5:24 p.m.): Thanks to Brad from Urban Velo for pointing out in the comments that my computer screen sucks — and for opting not to slag on my eyesight. “The bike is baby blue, as pictured. Look at the detail shots,” he wrote after curtly demanding I adjust my monitor.
Sure enough upon closer unadjusted inspection the frame is a lighter shade of paaaaale baby blue (I’d almost call it preterm baby blue because the color looks like it could use a week or two more to mature). Plus there’s also the chromed bits (that I saw on my uncalibrated unadjusted monitor all by myself without them needing to be pointed out) so I take it aaaaall back.
Wait, no I don’t: white tires, white rims, white saddle and white bar grips… all still moan “Ghooooooost Biiiiike” and in fact the frame’s fey hue might make the ride look even more haunting at night.
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I would totally buy one of these (and probably also get killed on it), but, as you’ve alluded to, Specialized’s definition of “cheap” does not jibe with mine.
Spencer! True, bad karma color scheme aside they look sharp. But even if the price were far more to your liking, I’d beg you not to buy that ride — or at least modify the paint job to something a little less cringeworthy… and not so much a royal pain in the ass to keep clean.
Adjust your monitors. The bike is baby blue, as pictured. Look at the detail shots.
I think your monitor is calibrated just fine. It looks white to me, too — okay, sort of a blue-ish white, but still. And on the Wired page, they call it “all white and chrome.”
Regardless, Specialized is demonstrating incredibly bad taste, whatever the exact shade turns out to be. Although, considering the way some people ride, a pre-fab ghost bike may not be a bad idea.
I, too, have a very pit-bull who is the most supporting animal I’ve ever owned. Quickly, a fresh dog breed will appear together to the media to blast, because they have completed rotties and dobies in prior many years. Unfortunate that media sensationalism breeds much inaccurate data.