Saffron Frameworks Dream Bike

As for paint and build, I have two ideas. Both depend (to an extent) on the above lug design being possible but are still workable with other other bilam designs. The first is yellow and pink fades with rainbow sparkles on top.... maybe blue logo and green (or blue?) lug lining.

Either with an ISP and topper or with a regular SP and a painted stem:

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It's dark grey and white with an integrated carbon seat post. I'll see if he will share a pic.

Interested on the drop. I've recently increased my drop and am now getting a sore hip flexor after 2 hr+ rides or threshold efforts... I was tempted to see Scherrit actually, but he doesn't work Fridays, which is my 1 guaranteed day off work, which is a bit of a pain!

go disc!

The other idea is to with prismatic flip paint, like Trek use... and bring in some colours with the components. The idea would be to have a fade to bare metal on the part of the headtube that's yellow in the above picture. I don't have a photoshopped picture for this yet, but here's what I'm taking about:

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If I go with the prismatic flip paint idea, the components might look something like this:

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Basically, I just really like the stupid ano on the ee calipers.

I already have the groupset!

I could go with mechanical discs...

Wow! This is gonna be one larey build.
Like the full black sp one, also like the Trek paint job, some of the Spesh Aethos paint jobs look quite nice too.

That's gonna look dated really quickly. Go for a lovely single colour job that you will still be happy to ride in 20 years time.

Or just get it repainted when you are bored of it. Life is too short to consider what you'll be happy with in 20 years time.

This is lfgss, bike for life is for 18 months anyway

Bloody ell, that long?

I'll have a Freedom Pass by 2041 so this'll be in the bin.

You’re right approx 1 year

Nice.

get the pick and mix isle looking bike imo

i think people are right to say lairy stuff ages poorly, but the upswing to this is the resultant graph is shaped as a dip,

the first 6 months? excellent, it looks great, pristine, looks ace.

within the 6-18 month window you will regret it and wish you got something that looks like a pasnormal drone, usually around the time of the first scratch

but then over time, as it ages and you stop caring about it, starts to come into its own. like a Moschino shirt

and like that moschino shirt, some young person will be gassed when you sell it to them for a 1/10th of the price as you've "got all your use out of it and want something a bit more now"

Personally I'd go plain frame and bling components, but to each their own. Or just go full speedvagen style:

I've looked at this about 10 times and still can't decide if I actually like it, but it's sort of... compelling.

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Which one is the pick and mix one - Fruit salad or sparkly Trek?

All these bikes are kinda cool to look at but you turn up on one for a clubride and you look a total melt.

Yeah, no, I've decided if I buy the Kirk, I'm still keeping the seven. But you don't need to bring that trolling to someone else's thread. Do it in mine if you're gonna do it.

I think there are loads of us who are guilty of this. Yours was just a recent example. I am thinking of selling a couple of my bieks I thought I’d have forever too.

My robin mather which was a biek4lyfe is now a turbo bike!

Bikes with Prismatic paint are the cycling equivalent of this:

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FWIW, I think you are trying to involve yourself in the design of this bike way too much. Mathew and Billy are both very good at their jobs. Give them some rough parameters and let them get on with it - you will get a much better end product.

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I think it looks good, but I'd want to have some proper watts to ride that in a group (or any 'superbike', tbh). Bit like wearing gold boots at football. Great if you're Ronaldo, bit daft if you're Ronnie Pickering.

Makes no sense logically - it's your bike/money, so if you like it, who cares? - but I've always thought a bit like that #insecurities

Guilty as charged.

Twice :=/