Build vs. Buy Complete?
08-01-21, 03:50 PM
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It’s almost always less expensive to buy a complete bike unless you have a garage full of bike parts like some of us do.
08-01-21, 03:53 PM
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I had a chocolate brown Steamroller, built it from the frame up almost 20 years ago, including the wheelset using old style Camp track hubs, Mavic rims, Campy track crankset, Brooks, Nittos, Eggbeaters…. I sold it about 5 years ago though. I still ride an old Bianchi track frame, also built from scratch around the same time.
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08-01-21, 04:03 PM
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08-01-21, 06:40 PM
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Glad you are back. I also came back after 7 years of absence. I still message with Herb every so often & been trying to catch a ride with him in Burbank.
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08-12-21, 08:35 AM
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The only critique I have is that I believe its really built for FG since the drill out for the rear break was very small and would not fit the breaks I had available, several diff brands, think they all had standard bolts ?
08-12-21, 11:04 AM
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08-23-21, 05:44 AM
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08-23-21, 06:01 PM
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Moved out to a small house in the ‘burbs with the ball and chain. Liked/liking life outside the city enough that we annexed the tiny house behind ours.
So now I got the entire first floor of the new house as my bike workshop!
Nothing in there but an old kitchen table, an old bike stand, a tv, a Bluetooth speaker and a bunch of tools. Sweet!
Haven’t been able to satisfy my new bike Jones in nigh on two years so am building up a new to me frame with parts I’ve been hoarding.
It’s an entirely different experience working on a bike in total comfort haha.
But, yeah, building. Woulda preferred buying complete/new tho.
So now I got the entire first floor of the new house as my bike workshop!
Nothing in there but an old kitchen table, an old bike stand, a tv, a Bluetooth speaker and a bunch of tools. Sweet!
Haven’t been able to satisfy my new bike Jones in nigh on two years so am building up a new to me frame with parts I’ve been hoarding.
It’s an entirely different experience working on a bike in total comfort haha.
But, yeah, building. Woulda preferred buying complete/new tho.
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08-31-21, 12:13 PM
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As for having a bike within the living spaces...well, that would result in my immediate death. So, I don't go there...
08-31-21, 10:15 PM
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I had the same deal before we got our hands on the new little house. My home bike workshop was in a (small) indoor room in the basement. Not too bad if I didn’t also have twenty plus bikes in there lol.
It was pretty cramped in there. My wife and I were both beginning to regret the purchase of our first home together a little bit.
We’d bought the place in a bit of a hurry and initially only ever intended to wait out the lockdown here.
So we went a little bit on the smaller side because we both thought we would be moving right back. Only now it looks like we might be sticking around long-term. We liked the area enough that we were already looking for a bigger place in the same neighborhood.
It was super serendipitous that the tiny house behind ours went on the market right after we began searching for bigger digs.
The price was right and although small at only 1100 square feet with no basement, it adds two more bedrooms, doubles the size of our yard and now I got the living room, kitchen and dining room as my bike workshop/man-cave.
No more dark, dingy, smelly, moldy basement for me hahaha!
I’m painting the place now and hope to get all my bikes and bike stuff out of the basement and in there this weekend.
It was pretty cramped in there. My wife and I were both beginning to regret the purchase of our first home together a little bit.
We’d bought the place in a bit of a hurry and initially only ever intended to wait out the lockdown here.
So we went a little bit on the smaller side because we both thought we would be moving right back. Only now it looks like we might be sticking around long-term. We liked the area enough that we were already looking for a bigger place in the same neighborhood.
It was super serendipitous that the tiny house behind ours went on the market right after we began searching for bigger digs.
The price was right and although small at only 1100 square feet with no basement, it adds two more bedrooms, doubles the size of our yard and now I got the living room, kitchen and dining room as my bike workshop/man-cave.
No more dark, dingy, smelly, moldy basement for me hahaha!
I’m painting the place now and hope to get all my bikes and bike stuff out of the basement and in there this weekend.
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08-31-21, 10:17 PM
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[QUOTE=As for having a bike within the living spaces...well, that would result in my immediate death. So, I don't go there...[/QUOTE]
It’s probably not worth dying over lol.
It’s probably not worth dying over lol.
08-31-21, 10:51 PM
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There is another thing though. My old bike parts bin is getting very empty. Used to be I could put a bike together just from all the bike anatomy piled up in the garage. Slowly, it has all thinned out. Of course my wife loves this condition...
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09-01-21, 12:39 AM
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My wife is always trying to get me to thin out my bike collection/parts bin.
When we initially moved in together, she and her parents actually thought I was going to get rid of a bunch of my bikes.
Her dad went so far as to suggest I just throw a couple out. He doesn’t understand I have been curating this collection for decades lol.
Same for my parts bin. Which I just added a whole lot of stuff to.
So, getting rid of either/or? NOT gonna happen hahaha!
When we initially moved in together, she and her parents actually thought I was going to get rid of a bunch of my bikes.
Her dad went so far as to suggest I just throw a couple out. He doesn’t understand I have been curating this collection for decades lol.
Same for my parts bin. Which I just added a whole lot of stuff to.
So, getting rid of either/or? NOT gonna happen hahaha!
