That’s a really good news. We europeans were first on that Alta bike.

These things are fire!

if anyone knows where to get one in so. cal…please let me know asap:

vincent@facevalueshop.com

What’s the big deal?? It’s just yet another single speed road bike. These things have been around for years and are simply the flavor of the month in the bike industry. There’s absolutely not one thing special about this bike. They’re definitely not a “new bicycle concept” as reported in the original Spear article. That line made me laugh out loud. The price on their site - 665 Euros ($1,030 US) - is absurd. You can get comparable (or better) bikes from Raleigh, Bianchi, Giant, Soma, and a dozen other companies for $300-400 less.

It’s a better looking bike than, say, a Specialized Langster. But they don’t even say what components are spec’d and the brakes, wheels, cranks, etc look pretty cheesy. The frame itself looks like a standard welded alu job, nothing wrong with that but certainly not something that sets it apart from the crowd of similar bikes.

Since the product doesn’t stand out in a technical sense (other than being more expensive), Alta is smart to focus on aesthetics and promote it on sites like this one instead of through traditional cycling channels.

Interesting, the small article would have us believe that alta bikes has a foothold on the fixed gear/single speed industry, or on the bike industry. This is not so, not even close. Not in North America, not in Europe.

The components on these machines are not listed anywhere, and they look shabby. You don’t have to even look closely at the pics to notice the nasty welds on the frame joints (yes i understand this is hard to eliminate on a aluminum frame, but some if not most companies selling bikes at this cost level have found ways to deal with this. It is not only cosmetic, it is what we expect when we slam over $1000 on a ride.)

You can get a frame that approximates the geometry of these from EAI for example (and they do have one that is close, however i do not recall its name - In fact i bet you ALTA is bringing these frames in from the same region as EAI) and build around it, or have a local shop do so for you at a much lower cost, lower weight and higher quality.

Don’t push this stuff onto consumers just because it looks nice, it gives the cycling industry a bad name and turns people off from riding!!! Then again, a large number of people will flock to these simply because they’re the new thing (in North America anyways)

And to close my rant, ALTA was not selling these in Europe, they had a limited run and then that was that, i guess they wanted the hype to grow. How does that translate into “Foothold” ?