but this is a kilo/flite100, no?

https://cgi.ebay.com/BLUE-STEEL-nomco...QQcmdZViewItem

a lot of their other stuff seems to be iro parts.

Yeah, if you look at Nomco's feedback, it's pretty clear that they just buy stock bikes off the internet, and then pull them apart to sell as pieces or as one of their janky HiTen conversions. So a $350 Kilo TT gets stripped down, the parts are thrown on a powdercoated Huffy which Nomco sells for ~$400, and then they try to get $200 for the TT frame.

It's a pretty shady practice.

yeah i was thinkin it would be something like that.

sketch, but i guess that's what you call a free market.

The plus side is that you can actually get an IRO frame a little bit cheaper from NOMCO than actually buying it from Tony. I've dealt with NOMCO a couple times and his prices are fair and he provides great service.

PS. thats the same price Bikeisland/Bike Direct sells them for.

Non-searching before they write sh*t idiots.

https://cgi.ebay.com/GOLD-STEEL-DeLUX...QQcmdZViewItem

this is great, it reads like an infomercial

NOMCO is selling the group buy frame that we all paid $150 for for $318. That'll end in a few hours, and it'll go back up to his insane $488 asking price. The price for his Angus is the same as IRO's.

Bike Island only started selling the frames for $200 yesterday, before that they were $175. Also, Bike Island frames are warrantied, and they aren't pre-built bikes that had all the parts pulled off them.

I think bikeisland was previously selling the frame alone (no fork) for $145. Now it's frame + fork for $199.

Bikeisland = free shipping, too. $36 is a big difference when you're only talking two bills to begin with. All the same, it's a small price to pay for a cool color otherwise unavailable outside having it powdercoated yourself.

I'm not knocking the nomco guy at all, he's listed several items that I thought were decent bargains, but if I had a frame powdercoated I'd at least remove the rackmount bolts so they didn't get sealed to the frame.

who cares, just ride man.

man, those @ssholes over at bikeisland.com are trying to do the same thing!!!

He powder-coated the screws into the seat-stays:



And you can forget about threading anything into these eyelets (makes me wonder about the BB, he shows no close-ups of it):



And he wants $382 for this (wheels likely taken from the Kilo TT):