I’d get a Cotic Bfe, coz the look nicer.

I think the correct answer is… yes.

Yes – that’s a lot of frame for your money and will be immense fun. I loved mine until it got half-inched. I was going to replace it with another but bought the Ti one because it came up on offer. Otherwise I would’ve bought the same again. I was going to buy a matt black one and cut On-One decals from mirrored adhesive vinyl. I thought that would look pretty cool.

That looks like a pretty serious drop off.

I brought one couple of weeks ago absolutely love it.
Buy..Buy..Buy! 😀

Please tell me you didn’t use the crappy lock attached to the seatpost in the pic?!

Ohh, I would have loved a BeFe but I was put off them and onto the 456 by two things, in this order:

1) The price
2) The weight

It really is that simple.

Without too much effort (Still got a Deore chain set, cheap bars, OEM saddle, biggish tyres etc) it comes in at under 26lb, 25.5lb with summer tyres on (that’s real weights off a set of scales and including pedals, not guesstimations, BTW) There’s some typical On One “features” that can annoy, but if it got nicked, I’d probably buy another, yes.

Happy bunny 🙂

I paid that awhile back. I upgraded from the steel 456. The same fun handling, but much, much better ride and a fair bit lighter.

But it, I had one and bloody loved it, only the lure of clown wheels made me sell it and I still miss it. Like others are saying £300-£500 its still an awesome frame.

SLACKSET makes it more fun.

peter p what usual on one features that annoy?

Like short hedtube?

I’ve bought one, bought the last 16″ raw last week, only to be told it didn’t exist. So, having to wait it out till new stock on the 20th. 😐 very disappointed I was. New stock on 20th probably means delivered to me in Jan, I expect?
Love my Summer Season, but for me it’s the weight thing (with roughly the same geometry). Selling my SS frame to part fund will make it £200 approx.

DT78 ask brant he’s on this thread. He’ll probably reply 456 as its name isn’t a silly US boys band.

Anyone had one of these and also owned / ridden a mmmbop? How do they compare?

I got mine to replace my Mmmbop, which I’d gone right off… With the works components headset in the geometry is fairly similiar, 456 feels longer and doesn’t climb as well though. (I’m not sure how much longer, if at all, it actually is- but it feels it)

The big difference is in the rear end… The Mmmbop’s stupidly stiff rear just ruined it for me in the end, I got totally fed up of the way it bounced off every rock- bad for control, bad for traction. The C456 has a much softer rear end- it’s still nicely direct for pedalling etc, certainly not a noodle but on the same trails, with the same tyres, it’s constantly far more consistent and in control as the rear can track over and round obstacles that the Mmmbop just bounced off.

In an ideal world I’d have had a Ragley Ti but this was 1/3d as much and comes very close.

B.A.Nana – are you still selling you SS? if so i could be interested 😀

On-topic – fantastic deal. go buy 8)

Is there an adaptor so you can use a normal 1 1/8 headset?

1) Head tube is too short for certain Rock Shox tapered forks, and the headset grounds out on the top of the taper
IMO, 2 reasons for this:
a) There’s no standard spec for the length of the taper
b) On One’s obsession with short head tubes finally shoots them (Well, me…) in the foot
If you look in the pic I have a +3mm crown race on the fork which O-O made for me, which fixed the problem, but it’s a work-round, not a proper fix. They did send me an external top race for the headset which would do the same thing, but it’s MASSIVE and I’m not sure about the fit of the top plate it came with, so I’ve never tried it, TBH

2) Odd cable routing. For some reason there’s 2 sets of rear brake hose clips, one on the seat stay and another on the chain stay. Not a problem really, but it’s unnecessary and a bit ugly
The front cable/hose clips are poorly positioned, and too far back. I’ve had to zip-tie the rear brake hose and rear shifter cables together onto one clip to stop flappage.
Again, no biggie, it’s just a sign of the lack of testing/thought that’s gone into them.

But to be fair most On Ones have some odd design feature, and I’ll put up with it for the price 🙂

yes