I think you're close Peter. Soma's Stanyan comes in around the $700 mark and they're using Tange. Velo-Orange also has a lugged frame retailing around $700, although they've been on sale forever. The recent post mentions tubing that's not as nice as other bikes so I imagine there's some wiggle room to get the price down. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of all the different types of tubing, but I imagine that they'll go for something a bit lower than the 4130 stuff.
Budget wheels cost a couple hundred; Kalloy makes economic parts; faux leather saddle; Microshift drivetrain parts; and who knows.....maybe they get some of the tires/handlebars/incidentals from Soma. I think they can definitely pull this off. The SimpleOnes didn't have any super exciting parts, however they all managed to work together in a grouppo that made the bike affordable. I really think they can do it, and I imagine it'll be much better than the racy stuff coming out of Trek, Cannondale, and Specialized. On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:02:46 PM UTC-7, pb wrote: > > > > On Jul 3, 3:35 pm, Peter Morgano <uscpeter11...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Intriguing, a build kit for a Riv is $1,200 so not sure how it would be > > possible to do a whole bike for $1,400 made out of lugged steel unless > the > > are having 1k frames made in China or something like that. > > Lessee... > > Riv and Soma have a relationship. Soma makes pretty nice lugged > frames, with a retail price point of $730. The Soma frames are made > in Taiwan. The Riv frame is going to be made in Taiwan. > > Hmmmnn.... a Prestige-framed Riv? And the Soma frames even require > 57mm brakes. > > My only question is why would it take a year to produce? > > ~pb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/1kSWCEY4l2kJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
