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Nope! me no likey!
Anyways, I have two options now for committing to buy the all-city,
Either pay a lump sum of 1280 euros/£931.79 including shipping to ship it here from Amsterdam for the complete bike from
http://www.singlespeed.nl/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=52_99&products_id=1606
However, because of the size and shipping cost they'll have to separate my bike into two boxes then ship them here, which I'll need to assemble myself and hope none of the parts are damage and most likely get my lbs to service it and most likely in the future I will need to convert it to a fixed gear surely.
The second options, is mosquito bikes, because all-city doesn't do a complete bike they'll need to build the bike from scratch and to get the complete set up from the website it will cost me £1300, but I will be able to buy this bike via the ride to work scheme, (of course its limited to £1000) but because this will be built from scratch it will hopefully allow me to convert it into a fixed gear rear hub straight away and customise certain parts to my liking.
Hopefully a week will be enough time to allow me to decided which route to proceed with.
Thoughts?
or the other option
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Thoughts?
This isn't a beater.
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or the other option.
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Why not buy a complete Genesis on the cheap and swap all the bits over to an All-City frame?
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Why not get the Genesis and a few nice 'upgrades' on R2W, then chuck £100 or so at it to be resprayed to your liking? Should come in well under the cost/hassle of either All City option...
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How about just build an actual beater? Then you learn something other than how to calculate shipping, AND you don't have to take it to get serviced like a lemon, since you can do it yourself.
Also you'll be able to lock it up with relative peace of mind. You won't be fretting about chipping it. And you might actually end up with something with a bit of character that you can be proud of.
Plus you will save SO MUCH MONEY and you can spend it on your sunday bike.
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My thoughts (already echoed by others) is that this is too much bike to be a beater.
In your place I would buy a pompino, or some other cheap sscx frame and build it up myself.
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