or how about a group but for some cane creek cronos hubs... or profile, or campy, or dura-ace?

soma rush +10000000

I just got a job, I'll buy anything now

GB on Zipp hubs!

rushrushrush please that'd be great.

*cough* Delancey* cough

^ beat me to it. screw the rush, i'd go in on a delancey.

however, i really like the idea of getting a group buy wheelset (like cane creek)!

i think i would be more into a wheel set GB than frames, but i am open to either really if the price is right.

hed3

I want.

I'm ready for a new group buy. I did the IRO but my frame turns out to be too small.

I really like the Soma but like 1 1/8 inch threadless set up now since riding the IRO.

The Brassknuckle has 1 1/8, but I don't like deep sloping top tubes...

Too picky I am. But would probably jump on either if it happened and the price was great.

im IN for that!!
We really need this GB.
http://www.businesscycles.com/graphics/thub-zipp2.jpg

i wonder how cheap those zipp hubs could end up?

You guys can basically drop the idea of a Brassknuckle/Bareknuckle group buy. EAI wouldn't even sell us the double-straps directly, so it's totally inconceivable that they would sell frames in that manner. Especially not frames which they cannot currently keep in stock.

Also, Zipp hubs are great, but again, the idea that they'd bite on a group buy is a pipe-dream. As milhbach suggested, consider the companies whose business model already entails direct sale to the public, and work from there.

*sigh*

Not yet for me. I still can't buy ****.

how was iro approached about the last group buy?

As I recall, someone just called or emailed Tony about it. He said "Sure," on the condition that we gather something like fifty orders, at minimum. It was posted about here, interest was extremely high, and Tony put up a website for our deposits.

I think that Tony would probably go for it again. Conservatively, I figured out that he made around $35-$40,000 profit on the deal. I can't see how he could pass up that opportunity, especially since I think he'd sell more than 500 frames this time.

I would be very interested in a Mark V Pro.

+1

a rush would be awesome too.

i'd rather save on top end hubs than some bottom of the line frames

I'd probably be in on any moderately priced frame that people around here could actually agree on.

group buy on phils!

A Rush would be great, but I'm much more interested in the Kilo TT Pro. Seems more realistic given that BD is really involved with the forums. Unfortunately, a BD group buy will probably not entail huge (if any) discounts over the original price (the single-quantity price, not the posted "MSRP").

Although a chance to preorder is to be expected from a BD group buy (just take a look at the "12 days of Christmas group buy" that happened over in the Road subforum), it wouldn't really be worth anyone's time unless we can customize the order (stem/crank lengths, pedals, gearing, etc). If there is no special incentive for buyers to participate, the "group buy" becomes indistinguishable from yet another advertising campaign designed to boost quarterly profits.

+1

That would be great if BD offered a killer set of wheels along with the Kilo TT Pro frame. Something a little better than the formula/mavic, formula/velocity affairs that are so common. A nicer lighter wheelset (something perhaps on the level of Cane Creek Volos) for, say, $300-$350, would be a killer deal.

I'd go for something like this....http://www.amclassic.com/track_clincher.html

or possibly this...http://www.amclassic.com/track_tubular.html
if offered at BD or group buy level prices.