Lets piss all over Surly and Xtracycle. They sure look like the types of folks that design over priced, consumption based goods that will end up in the landfill next month. Lets also piss all over people in the bike industry making an honest living, and then moan that commuting and utility cyclists don't get any respect in the shops. This is a far cry from the vertically compliant road smoothing go faster carbon unobtanium race fashion wonder bikes that some people ride on the weekends and only in fair weather.


$1800 for a full build? Sounds like a steal to me. To be honest it sounds like it is grossly under priced, like most everything in our culture, to take into account all of the embodied social, energy and environmental costs involved.

Would I buy one? If I didn't have a Bakfiets, for sure.
And if I clean out my stable of bikes I don't ride, I just might scrounge enough $$ for a frame, and use older parts to do the build.