They are made by hand in american, out of american steele using solar power and they only cost $595.

Perversely, people in places with old cobblestone marketplaces use bicycles as transport rather than fashion accessories, and find the thought of replacing an expensive bike in under a couple of decades completely ridiculous, since the whole point of an expensive bike is precisely that it's robust and future-proofed.

You spend money once on an expensive bicycle, and for decades afterwards, spend hardly any money on wheels; just use them to go eat out more whatever. Bling bikes, unlike bling cars, do not proclaim wealth, they just say "gullible and vain".

Buyer-type thoughts:
Drive: must be a fabulous innovation twice as efficient as any current form of drive. It had better be, if I have to buy non-standard parts three years up the line, or have some specialist fix it. Looks like not enough room for a shaft drive or the right shape for a belt/chain. (Is it actually working, or is she just freewheeling with her feet going round?) How do you get to it for maintenance? How many years will it last, then? I'm not chucking out a whole bike in five years time!

The locking handlebars – how easy is it to get a car-jack in and break them apart? Or are they non-standard? & non-adjustable? If The lock breaks/seizes up/key lost / gets vandalized, do I have to get whole new bike?

Why is the back rack so robust-looking…yet so useless she can't put her stuff on it? No grippy thing? Doesn't look like room to drape a double-pannier, and anyway, a soft pannier will catch in the spokes.

Pretty. Don't want to look like a plonker riding a vanity-bike.

Are those hubs standard stock parts from someone? Maybe I should pay more attention to the Shimano catalogue…

I'm really interested in the drivetrain. It's obviously not a standard chain setup, I'm not even sure a carbon belt would work in that situation. Perhaps a shaft drive?

Regardless, it's a concept bike that I can actually see working in the real world with some really neat features (handlebars as lock? Genius!) that hopefully will make it to production even if this bike doesn't. I am however somewhat jealous that they're not doing a 'male' version.

The rear fender would be more useful if it came down farther though. If it doesn't get behind the wheel, then muck/gunk/water/whatever will still fly forward at a high angle.

It's neat to see new pedal systems, but it's limiting if there are no cheaply available spare parts. Can't tell what kind of drive this has either.

Integrated lights are helpful, but I don't see where or how these are powered. Maybe these are special hubs?

As for those wheels, I don't see a quick release. Good luck if you want to take a wheel off I guess? Again, specialty parts will only increase cost to buy and repair.

Looks neat, rideable, but an expensive way to buy and maintain a bike like this.