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What distinguishes a new player's bike from a not-so-new player's bike? I.e., what is it that makes their needs different and the stuff here irrelevant?
I played on any piece of crap frame I could find until 6 months ago (I had a Dawes Galaxy covered in rust and with a massive dent in the top tube [my second Galaxy as a polo bike?] which I probably asked for on this thread). I'm still using some cheap ass Stronglight road/touring cranks because they're 86 BCD (and I'm picking up a 10 quid pair of MTB cranks this eve - both of which were posted on this thread), I had a rubbish cheapo freewheel on until a couple of weeks ago (and only stopped using it because the affect the canal had on it). I was well up for getting my name on the list for those free BMX grips (posted on this thread).
And let's not even start to talk about James Brown's bike.
Not everyone who's been playing for a while only buys the blingest and best bits.