[QUOTE=SteelCommuter]I've never been to this SS forum before, but I am totally taken aback at the cultish reactionary response to this bike. It's weird, because this company is being accused of being conformist, of being ugly, of being too expensive, etc., but this frame has several aspects to it that are not widely available.

SteelCommuter, I went through the same culture shock when I, too, acquired a QB, eventually making it fixed, and then coming to this forum expecting to find a free thinking/wheeling embracement of all things fixed/SS, but instead it turned out to be a very narrowly focused and myopic core group. There are a few voices of reason, but readin through all the threads is primarily an exercise in separating the chaff from the wheat! I do find it a guilty pleasure, though...something akin to watching "Jackass" when no one else is around.