Originally Posted by the bike king

Pie Heaven? lol I need to be there but in the Diet Pie one.

Oh and I am not bashing although this will come off as it. IRO frames/ Forks are the chec[est f/f out there by far as many have seen. let me warn those of you who did not make the mistake yet of buying one why. In short it's why Taiwan still has a bad name. I bought and built one. Now I admit I did use Nitto B-123 bars and a Fillet brazed stem. But on the flip side I also used 165mm Kooka cranks. The lightest model they made, a Ti railed seat, Medium weight Carbon wheeels etc... The bike still came in at 22 pounds. This is not a serious riders bike. I will go on record ( since someone will blog this I am sure) as saying now. I am so not a fan of Soma but I would ride the Rush over that thing. It's the heaviest thing I have seen with a horizontal dropout to date. I got a call at home the other morning and did not register the caller as saying This is John in NY and I have a couple questions about the Soma. It was well much later in the day when I realized Where the call was from the first name and why the guy seemd to know me speaking to me on a first named basis.

John if this was you and I am sure it was and you are reading this which I am sure someone will call you or email you and tell you how I feel do me a favor and don`t call me that dam early in the morning asking about something that only helps you and not me. The 24/7 is for customers. Distributors should you common sense and wake me after noon my time.

Anyways back to my point. If you guys are looking for a great track bike that builds and rides like a track bike should use the EAI/ bare Knuckles/Privatelabel/ Nesunno. that is a much nicer ride by far. Oh and the famous Iro parts are just cheap taiwan parts with not even the effort on most of it to have a logo except the cranks and I want to say the stem but I don`t thing it does.

That was just on my mind and I decided I better get it out there and remove some clutter.

laterz all, Neal