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Road bike standards are relatively unchanged over the past several years – certainly if I’d bought a custom road frame and forks, I would still be able to get top notch kit to hang off it
Only if you’d stuck with calipers and qr.
So, a proper summer road bike then? Going custom for a winter bike (why else would you want discs?) is daft anyway 😉
Only if you’d stuck with calipers and qr.
True, but I would've if I had a nice custom frame and fork as it would still be a nice custom frame and fork. And I have with my fast road bike anyway.
Sod it, canny be arsed arguing with the pre-conceived ideas of judgemental fuds.
I suppose it depends what your idea of a perfect bike is.
Full suspension doesn't have any appeal whatsoever for me.
My "perfect" bike is a rigid hardtail, either singlespeed or hubgear (not to most people's taste, I agree), but these days with the rush to "modern trail geometry", new rigid hardtails with slack HAs are very unappealing (to me).
And there's no way I'd drop what I see as motorbike money on a bicycle, much as I love them.
Ironically, the closest to perfect bikes I have were designed by Brant. Scandal and TD-1.
I suppose it depends what your idea of a perfect bike is.Full suspension doesn’t have any appeal whatsoever for me.
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And there’s no way I’d drop what I see as motorbike money on a bicycle, much as I love them.
+ a bazillion. One person's 'perfect' bike is another person's "how ****ing much? You can buy a car/motorbike/pay two years' rent with that!"
I'm the same my dream build would be a custom geometry, alloy or ti, pinion, gates, hardtail, fat bike with two wheelsets (one fat, one plus) and a spare ridgid fork for winter. So many niches.
So just sub 4k for a only a hardtail frame (with drivetrain).
I guess I don't baulk at the seemingly high cost of bikes any more after 30years of mtb - im on under the minimum wage (self employed) but if I really really wanted too I could probably afford my bike Ferrari. It's one reason I love bikes - 'affordable' Ferrari's.
On cost, it's all relative. Yes, bikes are outrageously expensive for what they are, but still good value compared to plenty other things.
Couple of mates are into rallying.
£10 - £25000 on a car. £600 each driver and navigator for an event. Tyres, petrol , broken bits, etc.
1hr proper driving in the days rally over five stages.
These guys are offshore grunts, so on good money but nothing stratospheric.
My brother rides a £12k KTM Superduke which probably goes out once a week from Easter to October.
Suddenly £5k on a MTB you use twice a week for a few years is easy enough to justify...
A question to anyone who has had a bike built with custom geo. How do you know where to begin with the numbers?
I understand what they mean, but I'd have no idea how they work together. I really couldn't trust myself to spend a decent amount on a frame with custom numbers.
Has anyone ever got a custom frame and disliked it?
A question to anyone who has had a bike built with custom geo. How do you know where to begin with the numbers?
I understand what they mean, but I’d have no idea how they work together. I really couldn’t trust myself to spend a decent amount on a frame with custom numbers.
Start with something you really like (karate monkey) and work from there;
I think if I ever get to have a custom frame, it's be something like a CX/Gravel thing and I'd be asking more knowledgeable people than myself for advice.
The way I see it, I'd have less chance of fudging something rigid 🙂
Robot ,- I've tried squinting but nope its still beyond ugly. There is no angle which it looks good ..... Perhaps maybe with your back to it looking at its reflection in a convex chrome hubcab ,?