Get a load of the Moulton Double Pylon, a 20-inch wheel bike with a £22,000 price tag

More than six decades after the launch of the first Moulton Bicycle, the English heritage brand continues to make special bikes, with special pricesWith Alex Moulton's original 20-inch wheel bicycle dubbed"the greatest work of twentieth-century British design" by Norman Foster following Moulton's death in 2012, the Double Pylon takes the inventor's brainchild and turns it up to 11 with some impressively intricate features, stunning finishing kit and a huge price tag, which...

The Moulton bikes, with their 'mini' size, quickly became a hot commodity, and over 1,500 small-wheelers were built each week in Bradford-on-Avon – the same Wiltshire town the bikes are built in today.Not only were a lot of 'mini' things trendy in the 1960s but the Moulton was something almost entirely new in the realm of bikes with the separable frame, its small wheels, full suspension and unisex-one-size design with a rear rack.

The fork is new, with a Moulton Flexitor at the front and a Moulton Hydrolastic with Moulton Flexitor pivot at the back. What about that price then? The New Series Double Pylon is priced at a whopping £21,950 and as mentioned earlier, the lead time is currently around 12 months. That is perhaps partially due to the complex nature of the double-pylon frame, which has a trade-off of adding complexity and man-hours to the manufacturing process, but then again none of the new Moultons are currently shipping with less than a three-month lead time.

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