Fixie Inc at Mosquito

Just noticed that Mosquito are selling these nice bikes.......very nice actually, if a little outside my price range!

http://www.mosquito-bikes.co.uk/

Sadly, mosquito "service" falls short of even CONdor standards...

They're very sharp... but don't Hubjub do them aswell? Mosquito are claiming exclusivity.

Peacemaker F+F

hubjub £295
mosquito £415

ouch!

there not the same frame one hubjub has the old one, mosquito has th new one

i once went there and got 'served' by a scary fascist with a mullet who treated me like a piece of foecal matter.
kind of put me off going, it was about a much fun as sliding down a razor blade using my balls as brakes.

to be fair, it was a few years ago, i might have fitted into the £5.75ph shop assistant's/unfulfilled mulleteer's category of "gormless-looking prick who knoweth nothing about the bicycle in all its infinite glory and should be treated accordingly", and i have met others from there who are very nice lovely people. so maybe they've changed. more recently i popped in (to save myself the energy of self-flagellation) and they sold me a nice water bottle, and the guy smiled.

way overpriced for a 4130 cro-mo frame imho. for that money i want dedacciai/columbus/reynolds/tange tubing

Nice frame tho'... Lovely finish on it... Sometimes wish I'd got the Peacemaker instead of my IRO with it's stupid 130mm rear spacing...
Shoulda, coulda, yadda, yadda... :-/
edit: Forget that... 135mm spacing... Good grief...

I've always had really good service from Mosquito, including an on-the-spot dis/re-assembly of my cranks/bottom-bracket, which really was above and beyond the call of duty.

It is fantastically disorganised, though.

I emailed Hubjub a couple ok weeks ago, then they were then out of stock of the Peacemaker but had a new shipment on order. Assuming Mosquito doesn't now have exclusive rights to these and Hubjub gets these in it would seem reasonable to assume they'd be in the new colour. If Fixie Inc. have given Mosquito exclusive distribution of their framesets, IMHO MORE FOOL THEM.

My only experience of Mosquito Cycles was when I bought a Cane Creek IS-8 headset (one down from the Solos) from them. Got home only to discover the top bearing cap was missing. When I went back they initially completely failed to grasp what the problem was until they opened up a Solos headset they had. Lo and behold in with that they had a high Solos bearing cap (so you can use fewer spacers) and a standard IS-8 bearing cap. Instead of giving me this to complete my headset they insisted that as the top of the range headset the Solos came with two bearing caps so you could choose which height to fit, this was in spite of one of them being clearly marked IS-8 not Solos. Instead they tried to fob me off with a used one they found in the workshop. To be fair they did, grudgingly, refund my money, but I had to ask they didn't offer.

Maybe I'm just overly sensitive, but this was more than enough to put me off using them ever again, in my experience most definitely a worse service than Condor and I'd infinitely prefer to deal with Hubjub, who are both more focused on service and on fixed gear equipment generally.

is it just me or do the seat stays in the road bike pictures look slightly curved?

If it's just you it's me as well.

i'm dyslexic, mildly colorblind, and have poor depth perception, so it helps for me to check with other people on issues like this.

No offence intended, my fishy friend.

Two nations indeed divided by a common language.