Sorry again for the delay here, just been crazy busy here- which hopefully means I get to keep this job.
Let's see, where to start?
The bike geometries- it falls between traditional road and traditional track. We aimed to minimize toe overlap so that it could be ridden on the road, but not so long and slack that it rides like a pig on the track. We opted for all the bosses because let's face it, out of all the ones that get sold, only a tiny, tiny fraction will ever see an oval. All the rest will be ridden on the road. So we made it as road friendly as possible.
The hubs; I have raced Keirin on those hubs and done multiple cog changes through the rounds of racing and they held up great. Joy Tech makes products for a lot of people under the other company's name, so you may be riding Joy Tech now... these hubs are good. Very smooth sealed bearings and very solid hub flanges. I've been very happy. The proto hubs I have came with solid flanges and the production hubs have cutout flanges that look pretty slick. The hubs also have sweet steel axles and real track nuts. They are good hubs- if not, they won't be on the bike next year. (Two colors next year.)
The Coltello is the all-race frame/fork. The steel bike was never intended to be a full-on race bike. The Coltello has been raced at Nationals and will be going to the World Cup this year, so it's good enough for anything you want to throw at it. First frames are shipping out of here now and are already almost sold out. I'm trying to get the next run moved up, so we can fill the pipeline up again.
No doubt the Jamis is a nice bike. Hell, all of them are. Let's be honest though- almost all of these things will be ridden on the road. Unless you have to have that urban-hip and ride a retired Keirin frame without brakes (and have a death wish), a frame with a few braze-ons just makes sense. We built the thing to be a good option for the largest possible swath of riders. On the plus side, of the people who have ridden the bikes, I have heard nothing but rave reviews. If anybody hears differently, please let me know- seriously.
Ok, go ride a bike now.