Anyone know anything about Gorilla bikes...
 

http://www.gorillabicycles.com/web/en/trackbicyles/

http://www.gorillabicycles.com/web/en/trackframes/

Good...
Bad...
available in the states?...

1150ish bucks for a lugged frame, NO THANKS!

lame

Hmmm...that looks like a memory test...

A while back in the Road forum and some others, there was a series of posts where some guy was selling frames claimed to be made by an Italian manufacturer, and the Italian manufacturer's domestic rep denied that they had been and yada yada yada. Anyway, seems like that guy was also the one doing the Gorilla bicycles, although I don't recall if that was the series actually involved in the discussion. But seems like he was in Switzerland, selling fairly high dollar steel frames via Ebay in the US.

(Edit)- Ah, here you go:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=395231
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=392402

they look fairly normal, but nothing amazingly special

Oh noes, not again. :twitchy:

I can think of 20 better frames that you can get for $1150

u could get a cinelli vigorelli!

...And then you can still think of 20 better frames you can get for $1150.-


Seriously, though, over a grand for lugged steel better be custom.

yeah, gorilla bikes. those are the bikes with negative rise stems, 650c front wheels and really high seatposts, right? I'd buy one.

They call em "Fixies" LOL. That tells you something RIGHT there!

That they don't read Bikeforums enough to know that that's uncool?

Is the word "fixie" generally reviled outside of bikeforums? I didn't encounter resistance to it until I started reading the boards here. I know a few people who've ridden fixed gear road bikes for years (40+ in one case) who refer to them affectionately as fixies.

'Fixie' is just some bike with one, fixed gear. That's for people who buy Langsters.

Anyone who would dare show themselves around here knows that one doesn't show up without anything less than a full-on, super-tight, track bike that is the state of the art, circa 1972....with riser bars...and a well-padded saddle...and *gag* white Deep-V's

haha the internet nerlds don't like the word fixie to describe fixed wheel bikes?

that or they just sit ther, in front of the computer bike safely tucked away for protection while they sit at computer desperately trying to find some new way to distinguish themselves from people riding bikes....that's spot on isnt it

hahah bike forums ftL, real world ftW