Chicagoans - Who's is this?
02-11-05, 09:57 PM
#1
Takeover is inevitable!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 212
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
02-11-05, 10:26 PM
#3
Total Hack
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Posts: 790
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Does it look like the rims match the color on the frame? Kind of looks like it to me, but it's tough to tell.
I like every IF bike I've seen.
I like every IF bike I've seen.
02-11-05, 10:59 PM
#4
Coasting makes you grumpy
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,376
Bikes: Specialized Stumpjumper M2Comp; Habanero Ti-Team; Slingshot Road; 1962 converted Raliegh fixer aka: The Beast
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Nah, they made the bike finish match the rim color. 
Seriously, yes they do look like they match.
Seriously, yes they do look like they match.
02-12-05, 08:29 AM
#6
SuperstitiousHyperrealist
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Boston
Posts: 433
Bikes: unknown road conversion, half built Benotto track
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Nice bike but if I were going to drop $$ on a custom frame I wouldn't get cable routing braze-ons. WTF? Maybe this was originally meant to be a SS but to me it ruins the whole thing. Good company, though. A girl I used to work with works there. Maybe I can get a discount! 
02-12-05, 02:52 PM
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2,615
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Originally Posted by jinx_removing
Nice bike but if I were going to drop $$ on a custom frame I wouldn't get cable routing braze-ons. WTF? Maybe this was originally meant to be a SS but to me it ruins the whole thing. Good company, though. A girl I used to work with works there. Maybe I can get a discount!
And that the photo was taken from the wrong side. And that the sun isn't shining. And that it has a silver headset with a black stem. And that the tire labels aren't aligned with the valve stems. And that the valve caps are on. And that the brake cable housing was cut a bit too short. I think the owner should sell it to me as salvage so I can fix a few things...
02-12-05, 05:05 PM
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago
Posts: 772
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the guy who owns/builds the ANT frames used to build frames for IF. Both companies are from the boston area so I wouldn't be suprised. Well made frame if it was built buy him.
02-12-05, 05:23 PM
#9
GG + Wendy O. 4EVA
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Blatz To The Future
Posts: 1,477
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
My question is why Diversey harbor? Why not North Ave? Montrose? Diversey is raw, dude, raw!
02-12-05, 05:35 PM
#10
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3,482
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Mike Fla****n who runs ANT did indeed co-found IF. He went solo a year or two ago to concentrate on building commuter bikes.
02-12-05, 11:02 PM
#11
the way we get by
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Wherever the f**k I feel it
Posts: 2,719
Bikes: Cinelli Supercorsa / Surly Karate Monkey
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Naz, is that the kind of ride you're dreaming of?
Nice ride, nice ride.
Just look at the rake on that fork.
Nice ride, nice ride.
Just look at the rake on that fork.
02-14-05, 01:05 AM
#14
Beausage is Beautiful
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Saitama, Japan
Posts: 5,504
Bikes: Nabiis Alchemy
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 20 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 13 Times
in
8 Posts
Originally Posted by [165]
IF sucks. Cuz I can't afford it.
__________________
Yo. Everything I’m doing is linked on What’s up with Dave? but most of note currently is Somewhere in Japan.
Yo. Everything I’m doing is linked on What’s up with Dave? but most of note currently is Somewhere in Japan.
02-14-05, 06:11 AM
#15
Rebel Thousandaire
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Hartford, CT
Posts: 733
Bikes: Public D8, Yuba Mundo (cargo), Novara Buzz (1-speed, soon to be 2-speed w/ a kickback hub), Xootr 1-speed folder
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Originally Posted by BostonFixed
I don't know, but it's Sick. Made local here in my neighboring city of somerville, ma...
02-14-05, 07:15 AM
#16
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 146
Bikes: Box Dog Pelican randonneur
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I just saw that bike yesterday. The guy riding was riding a Peugeot conversion before, so I was like, "Damn, he must have just gotten a new IF." He rode in that CX race at Montrose harbor and also at the Prologue of Tour da Chicago this year. Nice guy, I chatted with him after the CX race because we finished last and second to last together.
02-14-05, 05:20 PM
#19
troglodyte
Originally Posted by Paraleisure
No, not yesterday, it was crazy raining. On Saturday.
