The Montague XO Swiss Military ™ Mountain Bike is a smooth riding hard tail that can easily be taken anywhere.  In 1997, Montague won a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a high performance tactical mountain bike that could be deployed with a fully equipped soldier via parachute and be completely operational in a matter of seconds; the result was the X-Series.  The civilian version weights less than 30lbs and folds to store safely in a closet, vehicle or travel bag.

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[Get It $1,000,000]

Hold the press, the Dutch have an athlete that could medal in Beijing, lets spend three years and $1,000,000 to increase his chances by an 8th of a percent!

Cycle maker Koga Miyata claims to have spent a million dollars on the development of a new bike frame for Olympic bound athlete Theo Bos. Of course with the American dollar acting like Patrick Swayze after chemotherapy, it’s not really that impressive. They should have said the bike cost 10,400,000 Mexican Pesos, that sounds pretty good.

Obviously this is a marketing maneuver by Koga to brand their name. If they really wanted Theo to bring home gold they would have spent their 630,000 Euros on a chemist, not fractional aerodynamics which makes as much difference as eating an orange ten minutes before the race opposed to nine.

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