Well, when I got ready to make a purchase, I looked hard at the IRO, the KHS, the Fuji Track and the Pista.
Everybody on this forum had both good and bad things to say about the KHS, the Fuji Track and the Pista.
I don't remember any negative comments about the IRO.
In the end, I made my decision largely base on aesthetics and a post by absentr, though I can't remember what he said, and I would have had to wait a month for a KHS.
Ironically, absentr does not have good memories, now, regarding his Pista.
If I had it to do over again?
Knowing what I know now?
I would go with the Pista again, only because I already know how it turned out.
Still, the KHS had and has a lot of appeal.
If they'd paint the Fuji a solid color I could got for it, too.
And, I have yet to hear a negative word about IRO.
Ah...decisions, decisions.
All these decisions.
What a whiner.
I complain when I think I have no choices and then I complain because I do.
How cool that we live in a time and a place that has
at least four, cost-effective, entry-level fixed gear bikes.
My next bike I'll build myself, based on what I've learned.
I won't throw away my Pista, though.
But this raises one more question, probably not worthy of its own thread,
Imagine yourself as a bicycle manufacturer.
Design a bike meant to compete with the four bikes named above.
That includes price.
Interesting, eh?