Anatomy of a Photo: Lemon Leather

$27,250 for leathery hipness

All I can do is quote @michael:

$27,250 for this POS. Don’t know if it’s worth an article or just a post, but for that price, I’d like my really cheap saddle set back properly.

The beautiful thing for us is that an Anatomy of a Photo piece can almost be the same as a post, which makes talking about such abominations easy. Helps put @Jeff in PetroMetro‘s $3300 Look 595 in perspective.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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Collin says:

Feb 12 2011 at 10:22 am

I occasionally wonder if it is good to always have at least a little food in your stomach. Why? Well, when an abomination such as this Cowhide Ride appears, you can actually throw up in your mouth a little, rather than just dry heaving.

Truly terrible.
Jeff in PetroMetro says:

Feb 12 2011 at 10:23 am

Really? For that? The saddle better be made from the foreskin of a white rhino and the paint pigment from Lance's pee tests.
Gildasd says:

Feb 12 2011 at 10:34 am

Both of whom will get you trampled on/sued to eternity and beyond, if touched.
Jeff in PetroMetro says:

Feb 12 2011 at 10:34 am

Edit: The ENTIRE BIKE better be made from many foreskins of many white rhinos. The whole water buffalo thing is a ruse. As for paint pigment, I stand by my original post.

I will now go ride my non-recyclable, carbon fiber and toxic resin rocket ship for the next 4 or 5 hours.
Nate says:

Feb 12 2011 at 10:57 am

Fuck, for that price the leather ought to be cured with high-grade yellowcake uranium ore. The saddle setback is all wrong, the geometry is weird and for that price you'd think they could hang a prototype Campy electric gruppo on it.
Blah says:

Feb 12 2011 at 11:26 am

Wrong. Just wrong.
Geoffrey Grosenbach says:

Feb 12 2011 at 11:51 am

At least it doesn't have a rivet in the soft bits like this $60k custom goth leather TT bike.
Blah says:

Feb 12 2011 at 12:13 pm

@Geoffrey Grosenbach

My god. That makes the yellow leather look tasteful.
Warning to others: Cannot be unseen.
Brett says:

Feb 12 2011 at 12:58 pm

A water buffalo died for that? The bike isn't the piece of shit, Williams is.
Rob says:

Feb 12 2011 at 1:01 pm

Oh jaysus am I getting old or has the world gone insane? And Frank why are you doing this to us?? Is it so we will appreciate all you do??? Please we do - really - really!

Can we have some nice pics of the tour, a spring classic, muddy cyclo - anything, but not this.

please. . . ungruu ahhh ggggg - pleeeeasee.