Awesome Bikes

It’s a bicycle that weighs 73 lbs. If you ask us, it looks like it weighs more. But thanks to its electric motor, it can propel you to 48mph. It’s fitted with Brembo brakes to help you stop The Beast.

Some BMX riders have mad skills. Unfortunately, these guys can’t even get out of the starting gate – literally. Ok, I guess we should really blame the guy who lets the gate down too early.

From wheelies to handstands, Ines Brunn offers us a uniquely choreographed mixture of artistic bicycling, spandex and gymnastics on a fixed gear bike in this entertaining video. (Thanks Paul!)

These bicycles are hand assembled, finished and fine tuned by Francesco Bertelli, who uses a combination of new parts and old parts found at flea markets to create his functional design objects.

Confederate’s new C3 Hellcat bike boasts a unitized powertrain casing carved from 6061 aircraft grade aluminum and a big boned chassis/powertrain mounting system.

We’ve decided that we’re willing to trade leg strength and stamina for fireproof bike shorts and ear plugs (once) to ride on this AMT Micro Turbine engine-powered mountain bike. (Thanks Ugo!)

For some reason, the combination in Peter Miller’s Canon Rebel T2i video of spirited motocross skills, the evocative music of Sigur Rós and the season’s luminous light has us really mesmerized right now.

Aprilia’s Tuono V4R 162 hp naked bike, based on the RSV4, is sexy and loaded with technology, like an advanced traction control system that senses the type of tires on the bike to optimize itself.

Christophe Machet’s Camioncyclette provides a ton of storage space while still retaining the form a two-wheeled bicycle. Machet claims the bike can carry up to 330lbs – perfect for all your groceries.

The middleweight MV Agusta F3 debuts in Milan during EICMA; it wows with its 3 pipe GP exhaust style tip, inline 675cc 3 cylinder engine, Brembo brakes, Marzocchi front fork and Sachs rear shock.

We’ve heard a Ducati bike is likely to turn up in a cameo in TRON:Legacy. We wish this were it, but this red Ducati lightcycle was created by a fan with an active imagination and mad Photoshop skills.

Channel your inner Hermes (and memories of Greek Lit class) with Gijs Bakker’s cool pant bicycle clips. The fluorescent PVC glows in the dark, providing visibility for night riding. (Thanks Retrib!)

Sporting a knobby tires and a 21-inch front wheel, the upcoming Tiger 800 XC will takes Triumph off-road, with its 800cc engine cranking out about 135 horses and 60lb/ft of torque.

Kawasaki’s pointy snouted 2011 ZX-10R literbike will put out 197 hp (207 with ram air in full effect), weigh just 436 lbs and offer the Sport Kawasaki TRaction Control as a standard feature.

The B.O.N.D. bike offers everything you’d ever need for urban warfare on two wheels. It’s got a handlebar flamethrower, caterpillar track for traction, and an ejection seat to ward off thieves.

Stylish and versatile, this bag has enough room for a 13″ laptop. It’s made to be mounted to the rear rack of a bike, but it also comes with a removable shoulder strap so you can carry it with you.

Not sure how we missed this when it made the rounds, but this video of Pee-wee Herman visiting the 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle festival is hilarious. His bike fits right in with all the Harleys.

Shortlisted in Designboom’s Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010, Eungi Kim’s concept bicycle add-on doesn’t add functionality; it adds a unicorn’s body. We think we have a winner here.

While it’s not as intricate as say, the Shi Jindian’s wireframe motorcycle, that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate the design of Harder Studio’s pixelated ExciteBike, built for this Fuel TV promo.

Biomega is offering 2 new bikes: LDN, with a wishbone shaped one piece carbon fiber frame by Ross Lovegrove, and the aluminum framed NYC by KiBiSi, with nontraditional carbon fiber belt drive.

The superspendy Black Trail is an electric bicycle being made in a 667 piece edition by PG Bikes. Crafted of carbon fiber and other high quality metal, it weighs 44 lb with top speed of 62 mph.

Based on a post-apocalyptic graphic novel of the same name, Trek’s industrial design group created this tough-ass bike which looks both minimal and like it’s been through a war.

This 4-wheeled, 4-person recumbent bike is a marvel of modern mechanical engineering. See it up close and personal at Detroit’s Maker Faire 7/31-8/1. Maybe you can beg for a ride.