MTB World had an ace review of a early (853) Deluxe versus a YETI ARC sometime in '96.
Those rigid forks cost as much as some frames!
Fab looking bikes from a cool company, keeping an eye on their stainless 953 project...
i spoke with tim (sideways) last thursday. re the 953 tubing likey to be available 06 and going to be a couple of hundred less than the ti price, but reckons that this tubeset gonner be miles better than Ti, guess that makes the 953 somewhere in the 2k mark for the frameset, rigid forks around 300. just for your info.
Mate I would have loved to sell you my IF Deluxe, unfortunately it went to Singapore and for a lot less than GBP600.. I think I got AU$600 for it.. Sucked in.. Gutted.. Should never have let it go, I was tempted by the Full-Sus Sirens and betrayed my Steel Roots..