Biased as Gav is a friend of mine but his frames are lovely:
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Little bit of irony there when selecting a Peg, no?
when you grab an unbuilt bargain on eBay for £600 you dont get picky about the colour 😉
(was dark blue with a white pinstripe, new paint is dark grey with orange panels so never OTT)
and as for custom if the frames are available in 1cm increments not S/M/L/XL then most people would not need a custom size, luckily a pegoretti 56cm is my size
Is there an age thing on steel bikes? I've just hit 37 and all off a sudden I'm finding myself wanting one. I've raced since my youth and always just wanted bikes that are machine's. So carbon and alu have always been my go to, and still ride a mix of the two. I've ridden steel bikes owned by friends but have always been left underwhelmed, and kind of dealt with steel fanboys in the same way I deal with coffee tossers; just smile, be polite and think of happy things.
But I have grown to the like the look of them, is there a huge amount of difference to them, as in off the peg or custom? I have no bike related abnormal body parts or dimensions, I would just need one racey.
* Must be noted, if mrsmiths peg was the blue one that used to get posted, I used to think that was lush, probably what has sparked the steel urge.
It seems to me that a lot of custom builders are making very nice looking frames using off the shelf tubing. It's interesting that we describe them as "custom" yet a manufacturer designing and specifying a custom tubeset in standard sizes would not be.
Not at all. By way of analogy, most Saville Row bespoke tailoring will use standard cloth chosen from a range offered by a limited number of suppliers, but that cloth will be of very high quality, and the custom element is in tailoring it to fit the customer perfectly. Marks and Spencer or Ted Baker or their suplliers may well order a cloth that is to their specific requirements of fabric composition and pattern/colour, but both the cloth and the final finished garment will be inferior to the Saville Row product.
If a standard tubeset does the job, then there is no need for the custom builder to seek anything else. The custom element is in selecting the tubeset (or mix of tubes) to suit the rider and use, and in the geometry.
For what it's worth, the Columbus stainless tubes used by Pegoretti are extruded specifically for him to his specification. Conversely, the shaped (Gilco) tubing used by Colnago for their steel frames was/is made specifically for Colnago, and was developed in response to a request from pro racers to increase their frames' stiffness.
when you grab an unbuilt bargain on eBay for £600...luckily a pegoretti 56cm is my size
Mr Smith, you sir are a jammy lucky b*****d. I wouldn't mind so much were it not for the fact that that's my size too.
luckily a pegoretti 56cm is my size
Ebay search activated. £600 is a steal! Which model?
My two steel frame road bikes are a Kona Paddy Wagon (used £200 bike, now highly customised) and my Shorter TT bike (used £400 bike, now a nice modern fusion of filet brazing, old Dura Ace and modern carbon).
I might consider swapping the Defy SL, but that's straying from the fold. I'd probably replace the Kona frame with something. Dario doesn't tend to do fixed.
