Your right about the resale, but I guess you take that chance with a lot of small builders, US or not. Hopefully I'll love it, and keep it for a long time. As for the $60, the money not that big of a deal, it's just he has on his wed site: "Pay a $300 deposit to get onto the wait list (the deposit is refundable, minus design fees, if any, until I start cutting tubes)" , as far as I know the only thing that had been done was getting my name on the list, that's all. But like I said, it's no big deal. I hope to hear back from Kurt today to get the ball rolling.Law said:
I think its been long enough... Did you order it???cruzthepug said:
Yep. But it seems its turning into one of those classic custom frame orders. The orginial time frame was 6-8 weeks. That's turned into now 10 1/2 weeks and counting. At last check the frame had cleared customs from Russia and Kurt was expecting delivery to his shop on Friday 7/7 or Monday 7/10, as of last Thursday he had not received it yet. So with that being said, I'm expecting a email from Kurt anyday with a tracking number saying it's heading my way.Wish I Were Riding said:
as shiggy corrected me on exactly this a few days ago, that is NOT a sibex fork. it is a badged spicer fork, made for spicer by XACD. apparently, the sibex forks are holding up quite a bit better than the spicer/xacd forks...joeywv said:
While nasty, exactly WHAT does your post have to do with Steve's Everti posting?joeywv said:
Sorry Steve, Thought I'd follow up again. It's been another month... Your chain still getting jerked???cruzthepug said:
What? When you call Speedgoat or some other place to order bike parts do you try to talk them down? When you ordered your Dean did you offer them $100 less than their list price for the frame? I guess Americans are too used to buying used cars... Not trying to be a dick or anything but watching the LBS owner get raked over the coals when people are trying to buy tires and $300 bikes is starting to get to me.Law said:
I'm afraid so. I send them a email once a week and it seems that the frame is held up in Russian customs, referred to by Kurt as "purgatory". Still waiting..............Wish I Were Riding said:
Well, I finally got the word that it looked like the frames from Russia were not coming. Kurt was very nice to deal with, and offered me the choice of, a frame from his new builder in the UK, or a refund. I choose the refund, I think I've learned my lesson on third party builders. Anyway after seeing the pics of the Spider today I thought "what the hell", so I stopped on the way home from work and ordered one from my LBS. I think the large frames should be ready to ship in about a month or so, I've waited this long, I can wait a bit longer.cruzthepug said:
I would have dickered with them if I was uncertain that it was worth the price they were offering the frame at. Actually I did ask for a discount on some part through them. And yes I do ask for a discount at speedgoat, except I do it online (I have only called them I think once out of all the orders I have placed there). They have a price match deal that if you don't use, well, you're are being stupid.el-cid said:
That sucks. too bad. Why not a ti frame from someone with a great turn around like, Seven or I.F.? You would have one of those in about the same time. Isn't the Seven Verve less then $2K? I love my ti frame and can't imagine having something like this in my stable from now on, even if it isn't this specific Dean frame.cruzthepug said:
Bummer on the Everti, but it's good that you got out of the deal. I would hate to think how difficult it would be if you had to return the thing because of a failure or bad fab. You may think this was bad karma, but I say it's good. Back to where you started at least.cruzthepug said:
