Very strange "Michael Schumacher" bike

[Titiritero]

Advertised in my local classifieds. Made by Staiger, an old but average German brand now under the Accell group

 

[amoto65]

Love its insanity.

 

[moonlite]

I think it's awful but can't stop looking at it

 

[moonlite]

Here's another Schumacher-labelled bike -- a bit more droolworthy

Michael Schumacher Colnago Bike by Halmo

Fantastic and unique Colnago For Michael Schumacher, this bike was produced in less than 5 pieces specially for Michael and some of his personal mechanics after the win of 2002 F1 World Championship.This bike was not a production bike, but specially made for the german driver and was never for...

www.halmo-automobilia.com

 

[markoc]

Looks like the offspring of a GT RTS and a Whyte PRST... and not in a good way.

 

[sam_white]

Which classifieds and how much?

 

[Titiritero]

Which classifieds and how much?

Kleinanzeigen in Darmstadt, Germany. It was posted for €800. I was going to add the link but it's gone, so maybe they sold the bike after all...

 

[vtwinvince]

Those wheels are vaguely reminiscent of Honda Comstars.

 

[joglo]

I think Michael Schumacher was a very good figure head for Germany, and I'm allowed to say, I'm German too.
Still I was never a fan of him, but I'm not a formula one fan at all.

Just this bike is really very awful, awkward to drive at least for me. I also think this was only bought by Michael Schumacher fans or other to me a bit strange guys (sorry, no offense). One in a while one gets on sale, mostly offered for a lot of money, more than technical worth.

Anyway, just wanted to share a bit more background.

The bike was sold very late Nineties and early 2000s:

BTW: also sold as Big Boy in "Märklin" shops (yes, in model railways shops, maybe same strange target group )


It wasn't produced by Staiger, but is from Pacific Cycles.
It was at least a bit ago shown in their own museum of PCI, Taiwan.

The wheelset are Protos, Aluminium , as most other 3-spokes having no advantage to regular wheels.
Same have been also used for the Mercedes Benz folding MTB, maybe that was from PCI too.


The fork, - to me one of the key reasons why I think this bike looks awful, is called Space Frame anti dive and also from PCI.

Nothin’ new in t’ world - linkage forks...

And ATZ

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