We started thinking: if we were going to design a bike for Aston Martin, what would it look like?

From CountryLife.co.uk

The new Aston Martin .1R bicycle, a collaboration with manufacturer J.Laverack, leaves Paul Henderson stirred rather than shaken.

‘Where’s my Bentley?’ James Bond famously asked Q in 1964’s Goldfinger. ‘Oh, it’s had its day, I’m afraid,’ replied MI6’s quartermaster. ‘You’ll be using this Aston Martin DB5, with modifications.’ The rest, as film fans will know, is history.

Now, some 60 years on, there is a new Aston Martin, again with modifications, which might be almost as exciting and iconic as the original DB5. The big difference, however, is that this one has two wheels rather than four and Bond would probably require bicycle clips to ensure that his suit trousers didn’t catch in the carbon crank and chainset. Produced in partnership with titanium bicycle-maker J.Laverack, this is the .1R — the most bespoke, advanced and meticulously engineered road bicycle ever made.