Or you could get one of these Sub $500 beauties, not lugged of course but cromo, I would, however, be suspicious of the assembly quality
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/mercier/galaxy.htm On Jul 19, 10:02 pm, RoadieRyan <rya...@hotmail.com> wrote: > The HD is a good example. If I had not "Riv'd" out my Handsome Devil > I think I could have come in for a sub $1000 price but Dammit between > this group and CycloFiend (Damn You Jim!) I wanted a cool steel > bike ;-) > > On Jul 18, 11:32 am, andrew hill <neurod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > what about the Handsome Devil? that could prob be built up for sub-$1K > > pretty easily. > > > On Jul 18, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Johnny Alien wrote: > > > > Those are both hi-tensile very low quality steel. I can't imagine > > > Rivendell doing anything like that even for a budget bike. The > > > Rivendell name still needs to go on it. Neither is anywhere near what > > > Surly or VO has. Even the lower level Bridgestones back in the day > > > were CrMo. I was looking for steel that might be something Grant would > > > possibly use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.