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@willejp
maybe not all bikes are 'good' but most bikes are 'fun' even if in the wrong ways.
i know what i want from my build : stiff, fast, flickable, light, strong enough for potholes, sporty looking not bmx-y looking, bum up hands down riding position, lots of space for legs to turn, or potentially just a high saddle.
not sure if by your standards those are valid needs but thats what id think i want.
i do have experiance with bikes, crashes, wasting money, shops, websites, parts, mechanics. etc. from years of frustrating mountainbiking. but yeh i completely agree, and thats what im going to do. jump in the deepend, and build my first fixie, myself.
quite frankly i dont care what anyone might say about my bike as long as im happy with it, im just gathering information on what other people are happy with.
as for the critism of the unipack/create bikes i think its unfair, theyre cheap and probably cheerful, and look good about a mile away. perfect for the people that buy them. ive had cheap awful dangerous bikes ive had far more fun on that expensive 'good' bikes to be honest.