Originally Posted by
deepakvrao
I just cant get a bike like that into India. Customs is 43% and a hell of a lot of hassle also. These bikes, I got in part by part every time I [and friends] traveled abroad, and that is why it took me 13 months to finish the bikes from the time I ordered the frames.
Difficult for someone in the US to even understand :-(
Though, now my daughter is studying in the US, I might just be visiting more often, so might look at a Breakaway, except that we have enough bikes at home. [Did I just say that?]
You could get the S&S couplings and have them installed by a framebuilder in India if the tubes would accommodate them. Do any framebuilders exist there? Any who work with titanium? Used to be they only worked with round tubes. I think shaped tubes can now be modified into a take-apart bike. Those Enigmas have no idea what fate awaits them.
