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Glenmorangie
launch £5,400 limited edition bicycle
made from whisky casks.
Introducing one of the more unusual
and rare limited releases from
Glenmorangie that you are ever likely to
come across, the Glenmorangie Whisky
Cask Bicycle 2017.
To create the limited edition Whisky
Cask Bicycle Glenmorangie has teamed up
with Renovo, an innovative US based specialist hard wood
bicycle maker who pioneered the concept
of building engineered hollow hardwood
bicycle frames.
Glenmorangie’s collaboration with Renovo
is the second partnership in the
Distillery’s Beyond the Cask series,
which celebrates the casks in which
Glenmorangie Original is matured, by
repurposing their staves in innovative
ways. You may recall last year, Glenmorangie created a limited edition of the world’s
first Scotch whisky sunglasses, with
renowned British eyewear designer Finlay
& Co.
The hollow frame of each Glenmorangie
Original Whisky Cask bicycle is created
from about 15 staves, taken from the
casks in which Glenmorangie Original was
matured. Each is uniquely designed to
embrace the trapezoidal shape of each
stave, as well as the curve of the
barrel in the frame’s down tube – the
largest tube on the frame.
When shipped to Portland, the staves
were first kiln dried to ensure their
suitability for Renovo’s purposes. Then
the staves’ charred surfaces were
smoothed away, before they were
handcrafted into frames by Renovo’s
select craftsmen – each taking more than
20 hours to create. The frames, which
vary in size to accommodate different
riders (from 52-61cm), incorporate the
American oak of Glenmorangie’s staves,
alongside a small proportion of darker
sapele wood, which brings an intriguing
colour contrast to the wood of the
staves. Given a durable coating,
decorated with Glenmorangie’s Signet
icon and individually numbered, these
bicycles, which weigh around 18lb,
(8.1kg) and have a RRP of £5,400.
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