Mission Bikes on PSFK

Anyone heard of these guys? Posted on PSFK.

http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/bay-area-innovators-series-zack-rosen-of-mission-bicycles.html

Upmarket Unipaks? http://www.missionbicycle.com/ Or proper beaters, steeds, and HHSBs?

This is what the owner of the company said in an interview.

"***We build custom fixed gear city bikes. Our customers choose the components and colors they want and we build them their dream bicycle. We conceived the company in November, staffed up in March, and have fulfilled over a hundred orders since April. Our [website](http://www.missionbicycle.com/) has pictures of our bikes and a blog with a lot of the back story***"

Notice how the FRAME is not specced. He offers customers the choice of components and colours. I think its a fancy-pansy-pricey Unipak.

They charge $950 for an IRO Mark V with meh components that can be had for $549 complete from IRO direct.

http://www.missionbicycle.com/blog/kirk/2nd-mission-bicycle-spotted-uk

"He will be causing havok in the U.K. for a long time to come!"

OH YEAH??!!

what a bloody horrible bike!

Didn't Bike Snob rip the piss out of these guys a few months back?
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Didn't Bike Snob rip the piss out of these guys a few months back?
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let me know when you find it, I'm curious to see what he said about it.

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/11/bsnyc-interview-mission-bicycles.html
That's all I could find about it with the help of google. Might be more hiding though.

Yeah, that was what I was thinking of. Ta.

My name is Zack, and I am an one of the guys from Mission Bicycle (I found this thread through our referrer logs). I am dropping in to to put a face to a name and clear up misinformation.

A comment though first: Generally we are not trying to sell bicycles to cyclists who are already assembling bikes themselves. You are not our customers. Mostly we sell bikes to folks just getting serious about riding. We sell them nice looking fixed gear bikes with quality components and front brakes and we try hard to make them happy. I realize this might offend some of you, but frankly, grow up. At the end of the day we are getting more people on bikes and we're proud of that.

Notice how the FRAME is not specced. He offers customers the choice of components and colours. I think its a fancy-pansy-pricey Unipak.

On our order form you can see all the components we spec bikes with:

Frame: Powder-coated IRO Mark V
Rims: Velocity Deep V
Spokes: DT Swiss Competition or Champion
Hubs: Origin high flange or Phil Woods
Tires: CST or Vittoria Rubinos
Cranks: Origin8 or SigunoLOCO or Stronglight track
Bars: Origin8/Soma or Nitto
Headset: Aheadset or Acros
Saddle: Mike Aitken or Selle
Stem: Origin8 or Thompson
Bottom Bracket: Shimano
Post: Alloy or Rockwerks or Thompson

Basically, we sell powder-coated Mark V's with Deep V wheel-sets and decent standard components for $830 and we think that is more than fair. Yes some of the standard components aren't much better than what you can get on a store-bought bike, but that's why we offer upgrades.

They charge $950 for an IRO Mark V with meh components that can be had for $549 complete from IRO direct.

This isn't true. IRO specs their bikes with very different components. If you go and google around with our component set in hand you will find out pretty quickly that we are selling our bikes for less than it would cost any of you to build them up yourselves from new components.

On our base bike:
IRO Mark V: $260
Blast + Powdercoat: $150
Deep V Wheelset w/ DT Swiss $280
Bars: $20
Grips / tape: $10
Headset: $20
Saddle: $22
Stem: $23
Bottom Bracket: $12
Crank: $60
Chain: $8
Brake: $50
Seatpost: $10
Tires: $10
Pedals + clips: $15

Total : $950 (vs $830). If you disagree go google around and dispute any of these prices.

nice of you to drop in Zach :)

little defensive there though. As you say, we arnt your target market, and we are in another country, who are you trying to convince?

anyway, i cant talk.. i ride a Fuji track that cost me $550 new

Hello Pete. I'm not expecting to convince anyone, just making sure untrue things don't go unchallenged in the public record.

FYI I bought the same Fuji bike not two years ago :)

http://zacker.org/todays-impulse-purchase

... and I think that Nik's yellow bike is a way better. But to each his own I suppose.

the bike itself is fine.... its the yellow i dont like :)

and yep, you are totally entitled to defend yourself!