499sterling an off the peg bob jackson is about the same price or cheaper

"Tubing on these samples is DN6, though we have a vast array to pick from for production including 953!" (emphasis added)

a lugged 953 fixed gear road frame, brazed in taiwan, sold under the on-one moniker? hmmm...

I'd buy one if it was in my price range and I don't give a **** if one of my distant relatives in Taiwan built that **** for a $1.

I love On-One. What's amazing is that when you e-mail them with a question, it's usually Brant, the owner that gets back to you. I love my Inbred MTB.. one of the best MTB frames I've owned.

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.

north of a grand? Where are you people coming up with this?

I love On-one, and this is just another reason. They see a market that hasn't been taken yet, and they go for it.

I think this is going to be the go-to frame for folks who think that the Quikbeam is ridiculously overpriced, and that an IRO is too plain. Hell, if they go 953, $1000 for a frame will be a bargain, and will be (AFAIK) the only production 953 frame out there.

?? What about the 100's of custom builders that work with lugs, and probably charge about the same, some less even, than what On One will have to charge for this bike?

You can color me quite surprised if this frame/fork retails for less than $1000.