{"id":307214,"date":"2025-11-25T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307214\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:16:16","slug":"kraftwerks-1984-tour-de-france-video-bike-sells-for-huge-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307214\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraftwerk\u2019s 1984 Tour de France video bike sells for huge sum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The titanium Speedwell bike ridden by Florian Schneider in Kraftwerk\u2019s 1984 video for the band\u2019s Tour de France remix has been sold at auction, fetching $57,600, a price that would net you three modern top-tier road bikes.<\/p>\n

The lot was one of several possessions previously belonging to Schneider, who died in 2020, recently sold by Julien\u2019s Auctions.<\/p>\n

The bike was listed with an estimate of $4,000 to $6,000, so the $57,600 sold price (plus 28 per cent buyer\u2019s premium) is a huge sum. A bike stand and three Polaroid photos of Schneider riding the bike were part of the lot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"\"The lot included three Polaroid photos of Schneider riding the bike. <\/p>\n

While the original 1983 video<\/a> for Tour de France featured shots of the race, Kraftwerk\u2019s remix video shows the group\u2019s four members in cycling on the flat around their native D\u00fcsseldorf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The bike formed one of several lots of possessions of the late Schneider. <\/p>\n

The all-silver titanium bike<\/a> has had the Drillium treatment<\/a>, with its triple chainrings and rear derailleur cage riddled with holes to reduce their weight. <\/p>\n

While most of the groupset looks to be original, including the slightly perished lever hoods, the handlebars have been retaped and the intact-looking Panaracer tyres, new cables and Crane bell suggest that the bike may have been ridden more recently than 1984.<\/p>\n

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Kraftwerk’s Tour de France continues to be an inspiration for cyclists, with a Kraftwerk themed Canyon<\/a> time trial bike designed by the band’s Ralf H\u00fctter ridden by Tony Martin at the Tour’s Grand D\u00e9part from D\u00fcsseldorf in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The titanium Speedwell bike ridden by Florian Schneider in Kraftwerk\u2019s 1984 video for the band\u2019s Tour de France…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}