On-One Lincolnshire Poacher frame

This frame will soon land on our shores (Taiwan) - fixed 700c with 38c clearances & Long-shen lugs.
Quoting Brant (on-one guy) "Yes - there are going to be 3 models, potentially. One fixie (Fleur de Lys, 120mm spacing, chromo tubing), one gearie tourer (Arrowhead lugs, chromoly), and another fixie (Arrowhead lugs and a_n_other_tubeset)."
Photos are of a production sample from last year:
this frame pic is too big!
http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/dsc00020_2.jpg
http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/DSC02244.jpg
http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/DSC02240.jpg
http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/DSC02238.jpg
http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/DSC02234.jpg
Some threads: about the sample frame, and an older one
CLOSEUPS: dropouts
Has been ordered 28th August and should land soon - I am pretty interested for a fatter-tyred commuter and miss the comfiness a bit.
Whaddaya reckon?

those top tube cable guides look hideous

I like the dropouts but I'm almost totally over fancy lugs..

i like lugs, but nothing too fancy, it looks like the wallpaper in a tart's boudoir.

thank you, i've just had it decorated...

well I haven't had a frame with fancy lugs yet, so that must be why it looks pretty good to me!

I'd get rid of the cable guides though..

Looks pretty good to me.. they oughta make it without cable guides though.

The idea that it's somewhere between a fixed road bike, a 29er, and a cyclocross bike appeals to me.. Not the cable guides!
The lugs would look better if they weren't lined so garishley - like http://www.on-one.co.uk/images/photoalbum/18/DSCN6714.jpg perhaps?
Yeah I did post a lot of 'Lug shots but thats whats on the site.. pervs.

Reminds me of Vegemite pre-conversion..

the BB's too low

peejay78 it looks like the wallpaper in a tart's boudoir.

i like lugs; fancy ones, even; and the fleur-de-lys are fine, but that one squiggly one on the seat tube is sort of a mess. i'm not wild about it, even unpainted.
there's something incongruous about those blocky dropouts next to that fussiness. looks to me like there were 6 people designing it, and noone could agree.

Yeah Cajetas I can see your point about it looking incongruous with the fattie fork ends and swirly lugs..

The production frames will come in 3 different 'flavours' of which 2 will be fixed - one with Arrowhead & one with Fleur-de-Lys lugs

.. I'm still excited about a big clearance 700c fixie frame... ( I hope its cheap! )

I was considering getting something like this or a 29er (700c wheeled mtb) because (a) I miss my singlespeed MTB (bombproof and fun on slicks) and (b) I'm tall (6'3") so bigger wheels make more sense (c) it could be a do-anything bike with a quick change of tyres / wheels.

http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/acatalog/The_Lincolnshire_Poacher.html

Back again by the looks of it.

this time without shitty cable guides. . .

I like the dropouts but I'm almost totally over fancy lugs..

haha i've always hated fancy lugs.

Want!

....must stop buying bikes...

The only other thing wrong with it, not yet mentioned here, are the dated paintball centre style logo graphics. If they'd just done something elegant for what otherwise looks a fairly nice job. The headbadge looks flippin' terrible.

I can live with the headbadge, but now you've pointed it out the graphics.... :s

I agree. I want one less now, cheers.

Hiya.

Love the Taiwanese frame. The lugs are investment cast by a firm called Long-Shen. Forget about cheap Chinese rubbish. This is top quality workmanship. The recent British Fancy lugged frames used Haden blanks, very cheap pressed steel items - you know, the kind of thing that made Britain great! If we want to be taken seriously in the world, this is the standard we have to achieve.

Lugs smugs all style no content in my opinion of course.

I like it apart from the dumb choice of graphics.

The gold on red is pretty garish and the graphics are awful. Overly intricate lugs are OK but do clash horribly with what are rather nice dropouts. Oh, and why would you put mudguard mounts on the frame but not the fork FFS? It's not like there are too many 1" aheadset forks around to swap in if you wanted to run mudguards.

I'd still consider buying one, but would have to factor in the cost of an immediate respray...

It's not like there are too many 1" aheadset forks around to swap in if you wanted to run mudguards.

there are a few options.

The lug-lining looks sloppy to me + also hate the colour.

Don't mind the lugs & track ends combo but think the lugs look too short. Will probably look ok on small bikes but daft on larger ones.