Maserati Bicycle?

[I Want Sachs?]

Saw this report. So what is the Porsche and Ferrari of bikes? How about American handbuilds. Corvette, Mustang for Kirks and Sachs?

http://robbreport.com/Sports-Leisure/maserati-bicycles?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=california&utm_campaign=outbraincalifornia

[MattTuck]

bikes are ultimately very different than cars.

I'd wager that anyone calling that bike, "The maserati of bikes" has either never driven a maserati or never raced a bike.

Although it is fun (and tempting to do it), trying to say x brand is the y brand of bikes is something best done while riding x brand bike up a big steep hill near max heart rate....

[Mark McM]

How many Maseratis are sold as chassis only, without brakes and only a single speed transmission, and the buyer has to supply their own engine?

Instead, I ride the Lotus Seven of bikes - a chassis built up from a kit of parts, with a user-sourced engine.

[torquer]

Never heard of a six-year wait for a Mustang, so that RS analogy may be suspect.
The new Stingray, sure, or the original Dodge Viper, instead?

But lets have some fun...
Pontiac Aztek?
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeKBXjPNuJwoy-XoT4GmfpHmsMzlpsGV7gSdoXxea9CURjf4aBOQ

[sparky33]

I'd wager that anyone calling that bike, "The maserati of bikes" has either never driven a maserati or never raced a bike.

clearly an idiotic article.

[tch]

....is charitable. People get paid to write b_sh_ like this????

[Aaron O]

I'm pretty sure that this is the Maserati of bicycles:

http://www.mytenspeeds.com/My_TenSpeeds_1/Feature_Bicycles/Feature_Bicycles_Itlay/Maserati_BC/MASERATI_BC_2_Introduction.htm

[Keith A]

No geometry information on their website :confused:

[I Want Sachs?]

I'd wager that anyone calling that bike, "The maserati of bikes" has either never driven a maserati or never raced a bike.


You are very right. Most people who lust after Krik or Sachs have never ridden one before, and that includes me!

I guess all the little boys/girls in us fantasizes about certain rides, without test driving, before declaring these are what we want if we were ever to have the means... and that includes cars, bike, woman/men...

[krhea]

Robb Report/Snob Report...

I remember when there really were legitimate Maserati bicycles and they were pretty nice bikes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/KRhea/maseratibike_zpsbe5daddb.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/KRhea/media/maseratibike_zpsbe5daddb.jpg.html)

[DoubleButted]

Just what I need. A bike with a faulty electrical system.:beer:

[pitonpat]

A Maserati MT10, my first road bike. Entry level, but thoroughly enjoyed it 'til it was stolen out of my barn. Didn't ride again for 25 years until re-discovering cycling in 2010!

[KidWok]

Spendy for a fixie. Is that a sticker on the downtube?

Tai

[dd74]

Cross-brand marketing, boys. Take note: Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari, McLaren and even GM have driven/ridden these roads before.

Build a bike, and the opportunists will come.

[Kirk Pacenti]

what is it they say about "fools and their money..."?

[fuzzalow]

Robb Report, as a source of guidance and inspiration, well alright! :rolleyes: There is no greater authority on vacuous superficiality than that hallowed publication. Which is less an indictment on Robb Report as a media resource than it is an indictment to the shallow consumerism of its readership.

It is all in the perspective: Robb Report readers enjoy the publication as catering to their exclusivity, wealth and taste; I see folks with the means to consume conspicuously with neither the knowledge nor appreciation in what they buy other than it is expensive.

The more Maserati-Maybach-Bugatti-Bentley bikes get sold, the better. It is still a bike.

[verticaldoug]

Saw this report. So what is the Porsche and Ferrari of bikes? How about American handbuilds. Corvette, Mustang for Kirks and Sachs?

http://robbreport.com/Sports-Leisure/maserati-bicycles?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=california&utm_campaign=outbraincalifornia

Maserati was an incredibly crappy car in the 80's and 90's. The maserati of bikes will drop its chain, head set will loosen every other ride, and bottom bracket will leak. Now they are just built by Giant.

Christian, do you agree?

[fiamme red]

From the CR list archives (http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10410.0487.e ml):

Subject: [CR]Who made the worst bike ??

Maserati. Hands down winner. Worst frame alignment ever. Their low end
bikes were so bad you could not get the chain to run on the chain
rings. The bottom bracket shells were put in at some severe angle in
relation to the center line of the frame. I don't think they ever used a
jig or flat table for building these frames.
Junk.
Junk.
Junk.I knew a bike shop mechanic who rode a Maserati as his beater bike. He thought it was on par with a low-end Atala.

[John Price]

If I remember right, Milani is producing some Maserati bikes now. From what I saw they looked quite nice.