OT What bike would Martin Shkreli ride?

[AJM100]

Fun with Shkreli day . . .

Considering his personality, obvious need for attention, what bike would he ride?

I would say a counterfeit Chinese knock off of the Kaws- Trek Madone - that he would pass off as the original.

[ORMojo]

Something with grossly over-inflated tires.

[54ny77]

Something "curated" by a name but fabbed by someone else and sold at a 5,000% markup.

[David Kirk]

I'd rather like to give him a ride of a different kind......maybe a swift kick up the arse will I'm wearing a ski boot.

He's a sociopath.

dave

[texbike]

Preferably the bike version of Mr. Garrison's IT (you'll have to look this one up yourself...). :D

Texbike

[AustinHorse]

one dose of Daraprim says he's got a Fuji Obey

[soulspinner]

Cracked carbon anything. :beer:

[tumbler]

I'm guessing something like this (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Serotta-Colorado-Legend-Titanium-Campagnolo-Record-Mavic-Wheelset-16lbs-/171932353965). Bought it for $2k, planning to do a quick flip for $10k.

[bicycletricycle]

something from poshbikes.com

[Cameron]

Something "curated" by a name but fabbed by someone else and sold at a 5,000% markup.

Soooo, a Budnitz?

[seanile]

a flat bar fixed gear conversion of this http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/npmartin24/Scott%20Moningers%20Serotta%20Coors%20Light%20Team %20Bike/ScottMoningerSerottaCoorsLiteBike-1.jpg

[sandyrs]

maybe that absurdly expensive bike wrapped in alligator leather than pharrell designed?

[modernfuturist]

Surprised he didn't get this frame with the $2 million dollar album he bought...

http://www.sugarcayne.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wutang-state-bikes.jpg

[MesiJezi]

He strikes me as a triathlete type... soooo probably a TT bike with an adamo saddle and underwear under his bike shorts.

[fuzzalow]

Mr. Shkreli has criminal charges still hanging over his head. Criminal charges that might wind him up in some cell at the end of some penitentiary corridor.

Then the question would be not: What would Martin Shkreli ride but rather who would ride Martin Shkreli?

[Chris]

I'd like to see him ride a logging chain and some concrete shoes to the bottom of a lake.

[Saint Vitus]

Mr. Shkreli has criminal charges still hanging over his head. Criminal charges that might wind him up in some cell at the end of some penitentiary corridor.

Then the question would be not: What would Martin Shkreli ride but rather who would ride Martin Shkreli?

And karma would prevail in the best possible manner.

[weisan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqhX8-dazOo

[echappist]

Surprised he didn't get this frame with the $2 million dollar album he bought...

http://www.sugarcayne.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wutang-state-bikes.jpg

:hello:

he'll probably just ride it indoor as he cannot tolerate the plebeian masses laying their gaze upon his bike

[Peter P.]

I'd rather like to give him a ride of a different kind......maybe a swift kick up the arse will I'm wearing a ski boot.

He's a sociopath.

dave

That was funny, especially since I didn't expect it coming from YOU!

P.S. I agree.

[kgreene10]

Dunno about the bike, but "people are saying" he is looking good as Trump's running mate.

[saf-t]

Nah, he'd be on this (http://www.gizmag.com/goldgenie-gold-plated-bicycle/35116/pictures)

[54ny77]

They'll be riding an in an echelon.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2011/06/RTR2N9TR.jpg

Mr. Shkreli has criminal charges still hanging over his head. Criminal charges that might wind him up in some cell at the end of some penitentiary corridor.

Then the question would be not: What would Martin Shkreli ride but rather who would ride Martin Shkreli?

[rustychisel]

They'll be riding an in an echelon.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/files/2011/06/RTR2N9TR.jpg

Puts the notion of sheltering from the wind in a whole different light, then?

[andys]

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[verticaldoug]

1. The price hikes on his drugs is what pissed people off, but it is no different then what larger firms like Valeant are doing (only degree) or what hospitals are doing after they merge and take out the competition.
2. The smirky face just happens to be in public and it angers people. In private, I think many corporate execs have a smirky face. (They just hide it behind a serious face)
3. His twitter comments about congress being imbeciles is probably a sentiment most on this board agree with.
4. There is worse corporate behavior (read Huffington Post Highline on 'The most Admired lawbreaker in America'). Again, they just hide behind a serious face and show some contrition.

Shkreli did us a service. He has shown you the end game if current corporate behavior is taken it to it's logical conclusion. (Why else do we bail out banks after they blow up the economy only to allow them to blow up the economy again)

Shkreli is just showing you corporate Id without the mask. What you really hate is modern corporate America?

[Chris]

1. The price hikes on his drugs is what pissed people off, but it is no different then what larger firms like Valeant are doing (only degree) or what hospitals are doing after they merge and take out the competition.
2. The smirky face just happens to be in public and it angers people. In private, I think many corporate execs have a smirky face. (They just hide it behind a serious face)
3. His twitter comments about congress being imbeciles is probably a sentiment most on this board agree with.
4. There is worse corporate behavior (read Huffington Post Highline on 'The most Admired lawbreaker in America'). Again, they just hide behind a serious face and show some contrition.

Shkreli did us a service. He has shown you the end game if current corporate behavior is taken it to it's logical conclusion. (Why else do we bail out banks after they blow up the economy only to allow them to blow up the economy again)

Shkreli is just showing you corporate Id without the mask. What you really hate is modern corporate America?

This is both true to a degree and ridiculous at the same time. Regardless of anyone else who shares the same qualities, this punk is primarily without any redeeming value. Not just because of the med price hike, but because of the fraud in his hedge funds and the millions of others money that he lost. His bullying and harassment of others (including the child of one of his partners) which has been well documented is beyond the pale. He deserves every bad thing that comes to him and more. There is no defending this guy.

[velomonkey]

Not the right guy, but, generally, the same type - totally self absorbed - but totally THE same type of bike.

Tri bike - check.
Huge Casette - check
colored tires - check
horrible 3rd party cranks - check
zipp clinchers with aluminum brake track - check

[verticaldoug]

This is both true to a degree and ridiculous at the same time. Regardless of anyone else who shares the same qualities, this punk is primarily without any redeeming value. Not just because of the med price hike, but because of the fraud in his hedge funds and the millions of others money that he lost. His bullying and harassment of others (including the child of one of his partners) which has been well documented is beyond the pale. He deserves every bad thing that comes to him and more. There is no defending this guy.

I don't disagree. Turing hikes a drug after acquiring by 5000%. Valeant hikes 20 drugs by 200%+ from 2014-15 and a heart drug by 500%. This is a level of degree but no difference in behavior.

Obviously losing money for investors in his funds are bad, but this only slightly differs from Goldman working with Paulson&Co to design the Abacus CDO with mortgages expected to perform badly so they could short and selling it on to pension funds. It is a deceptive practice.

To some degree, Shkreli is like the character (Meursault) from Camus' Stranger. You hate him because he did not cry at his mothers funeral.

[OtayBW]

3. His twitter comments about congress being imbeciles is probably a sentiment most on this board agree with.
From one generalization to another: this is one time that I suspect most people would actually side with the sentiment expressed by Congress.

[KJMUNC]

Something "curated" by a name but fabbed by someone else and sold at a 5,000% markup.

So you're saying he'd ride a Ritte?

[echappist]

I don't disagree. Turing hikes a drug after acquiring by 5000%. Valeant hikes 20 drugs by 200%+ from 2014-15 and a heart drug by 500%. This is a level of degree but no difference in behavior.

Obviously losing money for investors in his funds are bad, but this only slightly differs from Goldman working with Paulson&Co to design the Abacus CDO with mortgages expected to perform badly so they could short and selling it on to pension funds. It is a deceptive practice.

To some degree, Shkreli is like the character (Meursault) from Camus' Stranger. You hate him because he did not cry at his mothers funeral.

Difference being that Meursault seems more amoral than immoral and that he is more a simpleton who does not think through his actions. His self absorption and other non-normative behaviors are products of the two aforementioned characteristics. I got the sense that he'd fail at sociopathy as he doesnt understand societal mores and makes no attempt at even ingratiating himself or manipulating others. He lives in the moment, so to speak.

Shkreli is behaving on his own agent and volition, and knows full well what he's doing. I say he's immoral and proud of it.

[texbike]

Shkreli is just showing you corporate Id without the mask. What you really hate is modern corporate America?

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of U.S. corporate behaviour.

Texbike

[BobbyJones]

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of the sheer disregard shown by corporate America.

Texbike

Agreed to a point. But let's not forget what exactly a business is.

[kgreene10]

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of U.S. corporate behaviour.

Texbike

Um, aren't you in marketing?

[54ny77]

Dah, comrade!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ydo0LI39ZsU/U1_0Q9eFMHI/AAAAAAAACTA/9n3faiQunQg/s1600/af13.PNG

:p

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of U.S. corporate behaviour.

Texbike

[texbike]

Agreed to a point. But let's not forget what exactly a business is.

If you mean a collection of individuals, then yes. It's the focus and direction of the collective efforts of those individuals by a board and executives that can make an organization good or evil. Not that most organizations are purely one or the other...

Um, aren't you in marketing?

Yes. I'm part of the machine. However, participating in the machine doesn't mean that you can't align yourself with organizations that maintain a higher level of moral direction and conduct yourself in an ethical manner that contributes to a greater good.

At least, that's how I justify it... :rolleyes:

Texbike

[Fatty]

Dunno about the bike, but "people are saying" he is looking good as Trump's running mate.

What people ?

He donated to Bernie sanders.

[BobbyJones]

If you mean a collection of individuals, then yes.

No, I mean: "a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern."

Remove "profit" and you have a charity.

I don't think anyone here has retirement funds tied up in charities.

It's arguable, but I think you get my point.

[Climb01742]

Agreed to a point. But let's not forget what exactly a business is.

Both Patagonia and Koch Industries are businesses. Ben&Jerry's and Monsanto are both businesses. Capitalism can have a conscience. Just makes it a bit harder.:D I think that was Texbike's point.

[josephr]

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of U.S. corporate behaviour.

Texbike

agree -- Shkreli isn't the only a-hole in the business -- the brazen attitude plus he's so public about nothing being illegal -- all makes for a salivating story. He knows he owns the market so and not yielding anything to the insurance companies --- they can't get it done in the back room, so they throw him in front on congress/media. Same ole crap as always.

I just changed insurance carriers -- Singlulair at CVS without insurance was $350, with insurance, $19.

[CampyorBust]

I would agree and believe that the executive leadership of the Fortune 500 has wreaked more destruction on our Country, society, and planet in general than any other human force in history. All in the pursuit of profit with disregard to all else. Shkreli is just an over-the-top example of U.S. corporate behaviour.

Texbike

True dat, that there is awesome!:beer:

Dah, comrade!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ydo0LI39ZsU/U1_0Q9eFMHI/AAAAAAAACTA/9n3faiQunQg/s1600/af13.PNG

:p

Drop the H next time. Hey that Steve Carell is really looking buff these days! :D

Oh and Shrekli would totally be sporting a Trek from the Lance era, duh.

[SpokeValley]

Likely the "Douche" model from whatever manufacturer makes it.

[kevinvc]

Really, prison rape jokes?

Unoriginal and not funny. The novelty was never there, and if it was it's long gone.

[buddybikes]

Is he any different that other pharma companies that have pulled in stuff from NIH and created products grossly overpriced that people are dying. ie: Insulin $325.00 bottle, original research team involved friend of a former doctor of mine in 1970's

Pharma's are 99% producing knock offs, like yet another type 2 diabetes medication when real breakthroughs are dying. Note so little on the horizon for many of the chronic illnesses of today, and not ones that are "human made" ie smoking, eating etc

[echappist]

Really, prison rape jokes?

Unoriginal and not funny. The novelty was never there, and if it was it's long gone.

thank you. And here i thought no one else was going to raise an objection. That such "jokes" are so widely tolerated is an indictment of the particularly American brand of "justice" that has given us, inter alia, Angola, solitary confinement of teenagers arrested for misdemeanors, etc.

This is by no means an acquiescence of the behavior of Shkreli, but rather that there are legal, above board ways of punishing this scumbag.

[scho74]

back on topic

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12501489_161031667605031_1586305784_n.jpg

[bicycletricycle]

back on topic

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12501489_161031667605031_1586305784_n.jpg

This is the best bicycle ever assembled

[bironi]

back on topic

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12501489_161031667605031_1586305784_n.jpg

That needs deep rims. Is that toilet paper hanging from the bars?