The Hummingbird Bike
Gooood lord, just look at this exquisite handmade bike, a collaboration between British design collective Tomato1 and Shinichi Konno of Cherubim.
- Karl Hyde and Rick Smith of the electronic group Underworld are Tomato co-founders. I found my way to this bike after watching Underworld’s recent Boiler Room set.’↩
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This is fantastic. If you get time, and want to see other bike-taken-to-another-level builders, you should check out Rob English cycles and Yamaguchi Bicycles (especially his "asymmetrical" frames).
Came here to mention these two also! Would throw in Chris Bishop and Brian Chapman for less wild but no less masterful framebuilding. Chapman's instagram is a master class.
beautiful to look at impossible to ride, give me a step through bicycle any day of the week LOL #ymmv
This Underworld set is a stunner. Nice bike and all, but I'm bumping this set all day...maybe even on a bike ride later?
Yeah it's really good. I was playing it all day yesterday.
On tomato: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tomato-richard-turley-guest-edit-graphic-design-150822
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