Beick is a Dutch City Bike that is built to your very own specification. Or rather, you design it on the Beick site from modular parts and it is assembled to order. This combination of sub-assemblies keeps things cheap while giving you a custom ride.

All the bikes have aluminum frames, Shimano hub-gears and Vredstein tires. The seats, brakes, handlebars and even forks vary depending on your choices, and color schemes are achieved not by paint but by snap-on plastic components.

I had a play with the Flash design tool. Even though it’s in Dutch, you can follow along pretty easily. The super-simple bike above, lacking fenders, a chain guard and any other accessories (you can specify locks and baskets as well) comes to just €250, or around $340, and that includes a leather Brooks saddle. That’s pretty cheap.

You can go crazy too, with a horrible Union Jack design, for example, or an electric drive train, or pretty much anything you could put on a bike. The brains behind Beick is Angelo Jansen, and he teamed up with the head designer of Batavus bikes for the project, which has been two years in the making.

Cheap, custom bikes with good-quality components. That’s what the internet is all about.

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[Via Bicycle Design]