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if i remember rightly, wapping warrior, you got tons of advice from people on this forum and you didn't seem to really take to it, re: get a starter bike first. lots of people also advised you to go to BLB as well, so in this respect it's probably a bit late for any post-advice hindsight.
isn't this the same bike you posted up earlier in the thread?
without wishing to sound too harsh, i think you made a mistake, not BLB. you didn't know what you wanted, and any advice you received as a result didn't mean anything - otherwise i can't see why you would have ended up with RPM cranks. what's wrong with starting slowly and workign out what you want, then buying carefully later? there's no substitute for experience here. i have a condor acciaio steel frame racer that cost me an arm and a leg, 4 figures. i saved for two years to buy it and in the time before that rode a totally awful old nishiki with dt shifters, and then a decathlon 7 series. after 3 years of that i knew EXACTLY what i wanted. i sold the other bikes having rode them into the ground.
similarly, when starting out on fixed, i got a fuji. i thrashed that for a much shorter period of time and immediately loved riding fixed. knowing what i now know about bikes, first geared racers, and now fixed, and with the amount of riding that i do i became quickly aware of the limitations and as a result i was clear in my mind that i wanted a new frame, for all sorts of very precise reasons. now i have a shiny bob jackson, and no concerns, and i knew the pricing because i 'd spent time upgrading prior to this and researching things myself.
this is why i think you made a mistake. nonetheless, i am sure you will enjoy your expensive new bicycle and it looks nice.