THESE ARE THE
WORLD’S MOST
EXPENSIVE RIMS,
HAND-LAID WITH
24-CARAT GOLD
£10,000 (pair) / spengle.com/collections
Has Pusha T got a new bike?
Depends – is Pusha T a Lycra man
who likes spending his Sundays
riding two abreast on the A
to Chepstow? We think not. But
if he is, do let him know that these
are the world’s most expensive
bicycle rims, with 24-carat gold
leaf painstakingly hand-laid over
Spengle’s high-performance
carbon monocoque. They’re made
for top-end road bikes rather than
low riders.Are they any good, though?
They quite probably are. Spengle’s
cutting-edge carbon monocoque,
a construction method that
involves several spun pieces
of aluminium riveted together,
is also used in Formula 1 cars.
You know, the ‘shell’ that keeps
Lewis Hamilton and his pals safely
cocooned in their cars as they
flip into the air at 170mph and
crash back onto the tarmac
upside-down.Spun aluminium? Sounds fiddly...
Perfection can’t be rushed – so
if you want to splash out in time
for the summer you’d better get
your order in now, because each
wheel takes three months to build.
They’re constructed at Spengle’s
custom facility at the base of the
Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, and
each one goes through 30 stages
of structural and performance
testing before making it onto the
road or trail.So that’s where my £10k is going?
Well, they were never going to be
cheap or available from Elizabeth
Duke. Yes, it’s £10,000 a wheelset
in the UK, €10,000 in Europe and
$10,000 in the US (clearly Spengle
doesn’t concern itself with
currency conversion calculators).
But they’re built to order for any
road bike, and there’s no denying
they’ll bring even more attention
to yourself as you ignore red traffic
lights with your AirPods in.SPENGLE GOLD
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