thought I could post the results of a little contest me and a friend of mine had in the past week over in a forum (german one - so sry for some of the writings on the concept - couldn't really translate that ^^) and so I thought I could share the results with you guys 
the goal was to model anything that fits in a "bicyle" theme with a polygon budget of 2750.
labers concept:
[Blocked Image: http://www.rubenmueller.de/temp/trendtredl_linework.jpg]
acumen (tahts me) concept:
[Blocked Image: http://v091259.dd2110.kasserver.com/model_pics/contests/bike/bike_concept1.gif]
so we had 2 days to do the concepting and modeling and I can tell you this was a lot of fun 
this is what we came up with in the end:
laber's model (2478 triangles):
[Blocked Image: http://www.rubenmueller.de/temp/trendtredl_render01_s.jpg]
acumen's (tahts me again) model (2750 triangles):
[Blocked Image: http://v091259.dd2110.kasserver.com/model_pics/contests/bike/bike_full1.jpg]
