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.

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