Cool bike just too much

[MIGZ]

http://autumshere.com/minion/

 

[Sinner4]

$1600, sign me up for 2 at least..... :roll: :roll: :roll:

Custom Built – USA

Overbuilt, Cantilever Steel Frame

Double Spring Linkage Fork

Limited Production of (7)

Complimentary Shipping

 

[socal_jack]

Ummm, that's just a Felt frame, springer, bars, and probably seat as well. Nothing custom except the mix of parts, you could "build it" for under $500. That website also got blocked by my anti-virus, proceed with caution

http://www.feltbicycles.com/USA/2011/Cruiser/Men-s-1-Spd/Slant.aspx

 

[Lonewolf]

It's a perfectly good looking bike, but I don't think you could replicate it for $500.00- I could be wrong.

I see some nice parts on it and I am in the process of doing a "Budget Build" which is no longer a budget build. It adds up quick.

Why only 7? Wouldn't you do at least 10?

You build a website only to sell 7?

My Firefox browser let the web page in fine.

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

It must be $500 for parts and $1100 to copper plate the rear cog and the seat/fork springs...makes sense to me. :roll: :roll:

Cheers!
Dr. T

 

[Tailwinds]

It's a great looking bike. It's the thoughtful combination of parts that makes it look so nice, but any of us here could throw that bike together. I could not do it for $500 I'm confident of that, maybe if I took a year to scrape the parts together and trolled for them on Ebay....

 

[socal_jack]

It's a perfectly good looking bike, but I don't think you could replicate it for $500.00- I could be wrong.

I see some nice parts on it and I am in the process of doing a "Budget Build" which is no longer a budget build. It adds up quick.

Why only 7? Wouldn't you do at least 10?

You build a website only to sell 7?

My Firefox browser let the web page in fine.

These Felt frames/bikes have already showed up on local CL, they don't have the resale value of the Felt tank bikes. You can get 80% of the bike for less than $200 easy. I'm at a bit of an advantage as I have the fork already.

I wouldn't rely on Firefox alone, none of the browsers from what I've seen provide much if any protection. Google's Chrome seems to warn the most, but I don't trust Google so much either. If you install a "hosts " file to deflect known adware/malware/virus sites, you see how much the Google analytics site gets referenced as they basically spy on you thru searches.

 

[Rat Rod]

And the answer to the question everyone wants to know....who makes those tires? :lol:

 

[socal_jack]

And the answer to the question everyone wants to know....who makes those tires? :lol:

The tread looks like a Schwalbe big apple, custom part of the bike might be the whitewall

 

[anon]

Could it be that once in a while bike companies partner up with someone to do this for publicity. I can see someone like us here wanting this bike, but balking at the price, and then, with a little online research, ending up getting the frame or base bike and, voila!, project coolbike, with a personalized twist.

I suspect Brooks and Schwalbe are behind all this co-branding. :roll: