Originally Posted by
kmart
I posted this in the BD group buy thread but basically I think you would have a winner with Tange Prestige tubing, lugs or not. Your could easily beat the closest competition, the EAI Bareknuckle and Soma Rush, by about $300. HUGE points for value conscious hipsters there.
It may also not be worth it to pay extra for the lugs because track bikes, popular as they are, have a sizable second hand market that cuts in to your profits, and at the same time (as others in this thread mentioned), lugs from Asia circa 2007 don't actually impress your target market all that much.
Yup, I agree 1000%
This could be a really great build if BD can work the same magic that they did on this frame as they did on the Kilo TT---track geometry, nice fork, good colours, non-garish logos. I'd like the fork to be threaded but I suppose that it doesn't matter, I could always get it threaded as long as it is left long enough.