The First Alien Fixed Gear Build. Finally.

Some time ago I asked about where are all the bikes built from the Alien frames. The reason being that Alien is new company, and lots of people have been really exited about them, and their first run of frames being quite a bit delayed. 

Well, now I can answer my own question. The bike above could be the first Alien frameset built up by someone who actually bought it. You can argue about the colors etc. of that build but the frame itself looks pretty damn good and tight, just like it should. 

Fuck all waterbottle bosses, mudguard eyelets and 'comfortable street fixed (= boring slack road) geometry'. Hooray for super twitchy steering, plenty of toe-overlap & cramped/compact riding position! 

So Where Are All The Alien Builds?

The long awaited & much delayed Alien framesets should be shipping finally. So where are the first pics of the first builds? The only one so far seems to be this 'prototype' here. In theory Alien frames look very good and the price isn't that bad either. So let's see them? 

Alien Track Frameset GROUP BUY!

Right, I've been posting stuff about those Alien frames here and I agree they do look pretty decent, especially for the price. It's lugged with proper forged Long-Shen lugs, the tubing is supposed to be ok (double butted Cro-Mo) and the geometry is nice and tight, the way it should be. 

Well, this where it gets even better:

Jamal from the bikeforums has helped to set up a special 2009 BFSSFG group buy of the Alien frames with a very nice price, 300 USD + shipping, international shipping is also available. Only two colors (or unpainted) available, otherwise it's just like the regular frame they sell, only 185 USD cheaper than normal price. 

Here's the ordering page & all info. 

Note that the closing date is September 30th, OR when the 100 frames available are all reserved. So make up your mind now. 

WTF? TheFixedGearGallery

I posted the question about where are all the much delayed Alien Bike frames and then I got an anonymous comment on the post, read here. 

Everyone knows about http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/. So you registered the www.thefixedgeargallery.com and posted the page full of shit, and "This domain is for sale. Email websitedomain4sale@gmail.com for inquiries". Pretty smart. Whatever. 

Anyhow, about the current situation with Alien bikes, read here.