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hah! A post i can comment on with authority.
I've had mine a couple of months. General impressions are good, but the more I think about it, the more the bike feels quite heavy. The wheels esp. It's my first SS and I haven't tried it fixed yet.
The freehub it came with was a piece of shit. I say was because after one very wet commute the thing completely destroyed itself and had to be replaced. Cyclesurgery replaced for free, but told me it was a cheap Taiwanese crap component. So it's nice to know they trust the bikes they sell.
The mondo tyres were also crud. I quickly discovered white tyres are basically a waste of time. The ones it came with were pretty crap in the wet and puncture easily; two punctures later the tyres had wholes which I could see the inner tube through. I took them off and have some black tyres now...
Otherwise I'm happy with it. My grips are still pretty white.