Old 02-22-07 | 11:54 PM
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moki
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Quite a departure for On One. That thing is gorgeous, but maybe just because the lugs are sexy outta the box; not a lot of finish work apparent. I'd like to see the fork.

If I'm reading right, the frameset will be somewhere north of a grand. Lotta competition at that price. Jackson, Mercian, Jacobs. Hell, a Kalavinka or Yamaguchi or Circle A isn't much more than that. For a cool $1000, no way would I buy that bike, hot lugs or no.

If, however, it's in the range of a Rivendell Bleriot, which I;ve seen for as little as $500, that thing would be right up there on my want list. Bleriots are brazed in TW, have a ton of braze-ons (and thus cost more to make than a basic track frame), hottttt 2-color paint, and I'd trust that bike with my wife's underthings. How Riv manages to sell that thing so reasonably, I'll never know. If they were to smarten up and start producing street fixes with all the trimmings for the same price, I'd sell a kidney to get one.

It's nice to see On One come with a classy frame. IRO/Surly/Soma/bareknuckles are fine, but waaay overpriced for the tigged noname frames that they are.
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