Eva bicycles designed by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki
Media Magic has announced that they’ll be releasing new Evangelion themed bicycles designed personally by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, the character designer for the Evangelion series. They commissioned him to design the bikes as cycling is one of his hobbies apparently.
They’ll be called the EVA00BIKE type-r and EVA02BIKE type-a, modeled after Rei and Asuka respectively. They’ll go for 98,280 yen (US$1093) each and are slated to release in mid June.
Media Magic also released a EVA01BIKE in 2006 which wasn’t designed by Sadamoto and goes for half the price and possibly look cooler too.
Link: Official site
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
They could probably sell them for x10 more on yahoo actions
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Fixed gear bikes like that are way cooler with the young crowd these days, and the simple flat colors are pretty much the norm in terms of how a fixed gear gets dressed up.
In short - yeah those are cooler and will likely sell more.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:46 pm
for that much those motherfuckers better be made of 100% carbon fiber
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:21 pm
they should stop pushing their luck, who would want that plain bike with that price ? ¬_¬
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 pm
A diehard fan? I don’t know…
I’m sure tons of Eva fans would like to get one…probably.
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:18 am
I can’t believe that Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, an active bicyclist, would still be willing to put crappy side-pull calliper brakes on a bike with that price point…
I can understand the fixed/single gear set up but all things considering (lack of any suspension, more than likely rock hard sliver-of-a-seat) they’re selling the thing for twice what you can pay for a bike with three times the performance of either of these.
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Ah, at long last. For only short of a hundred thousand Yen, we would all get the chance to ride Rei and Asuka.
January 24th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
No berserker mode no sale.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Tell me when a black and yellow Fatebike is available.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I’d ride that one too.