What's the Buz on IRO frames?
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check out Dirt Rag...
There's an article on the Dirt Rag website about just this very frame...
Here it is: http://www.dirtragmag.com/articles/article.php?ID=624&category=stuff_reviews
There's an article on the Dirt Rag website about just this very frame...
Here it is: http://www.dirtragmag.com/articles/article.php?ID=624&category=stuff_reviews
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Finished building it this afternoon.
Finished building it up this-afternoon after I got back from my ride (geared, sorry.). First impressions after a short jaunt downtown: this thing rocks.
Quite a change from the 30lb Nishiki I upgraded from. Was gonna do the upgrade on the cheap but got a little carried away. While researching fork options I saw that Cambria bikes had the Reynolds Ouzo Pro on clearance, and when I was working on it yesterday and discovered the seatpost I had in the Nishiki didn't fit, I naturally had to go with Carbon (Bontrage Race X Lite) to match the fork
. Feel a little foolish putting all those fancy carbon parts on a $200 frame, but it built up a pretty sweet bike. I'm anxious to hang it from a scale...
I'm gonna be starting a 15-mi commute to work here pretty soon (Work from home now, but will be in an office starting next week. If I gotta commute, might as well ride.), so that, along with the timely Dirt Rag article prompted the upgrade from the ill-fitting, heavy, beater-nishiki.
My only complaint so far is a minor, aesthetic detail. It has cable stops on it and I'm only running a front brake, so it kinda messes up the otherwise clean look. It'd probably cost nearly as much as the frame to get those shaved off and have it powder-coated again though, so I'll live with that little annoyance.
-Trevor
I saw the write-up in the last Dirt Rag and thought that looked like just the thing, to upgrade from my beater Nishiki. After a couple emails back and forth, and a phone call to the owner, who was totally cool, I ordered one. I wanted a steel frame, but for $180 ('03s are/were on clearance. $194 shipped.) I couldn't pass up the IRO.Fix-ated said:
Finished building it up this-afternoon after I got back from my ride (geared, sorry.). First impressions after a short jaunt downtown: this thing rocks.
Quite a change from the 30lb Nishiki I upgraded from. Was gonna do the upgrade on the cheap but got a little carried away. While researching fork options I saw that Cambria bikes had the Reynolds Ouzo Pro on clearance, and when I was working on it yesterday and discovered the seatpost I had in the Nishiki didn't fit, I naturally had to go with Carbon (Bontrage Race X Lite) to match the fork
. Feel a little foolish putting all those fancy carbon parts on a $200 frame, but it built up a pretty sweet bike. I'm anxious to hang it from a scale...I'm gonna be starting a 15-mi commute to work here pretty soon (Work from home now, but will be in an office starting next week. If I gotta commute, might as well ride.), so that, along with the timely Dirt Rag article prompted the upgrade from the ill-fitting, heavy, beater-nishiki.
My only complaint so far is a minor, aesthetic detail. It has cable stops on it and I'm only running a front brake, so it kinda messes up the otherwise clean look. It'd probably cost nearly as much as the frame to get those shaved off and have it powder-coated again though, so I'll live with that little annoyance.
-Trevor
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