I disagree with the crazy bombastic review...if one can call that a review above.

That being said, not to put too fine a point on it jipe because you've been mostly helpful in this thread but you're dead wrong.
he had a functional prototype that was already well engineered by himself in the kickstarter. He really turned on the charm and waffle of marketing for the kickstarter but not much more after that. It's hardly a Fyre Festival with no skill behind it.

He scouted and tested many technologies once he had the unexpected income of funds. And yes gluing of tubes can be considered. There are bike companies using the combination of manifolds and gluing to only assemble straight and bent tubes instead of welding. None of this is the mark of a bad engineer. Far from it. He is an accomplished designer, prototypist and engineer. He sucked at communication throughout and probably missed on manufacturing. He could have used a manufacturing engineer on staff. Also he spend a hell of a lot of time patenting which is questionable at this scale. But the man has plans i suppose.
All of this considered the bike is heavier than advertised, quite a bit more expensive than advertised (even if doubling kickstarter price) and so far no professional review has been outputted. Which is quite surprising if not downright disappointing.