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I'll be the first to admit that I don't know as much about bikes as a lot of you, but there are so many nice bikes on this forum that I really wanted one of my own. I thought a steel frame would ride nicely across the shitty roads here and a sprung saddle would result in a more pleasant ride.
So, I got a frame off eBay, had it resprayed twice, bought bits and pieces for it before finally giving up on the idea of going Shimergo, and just got a proper groupset.
A word on the paint... the first respray was disappointing, the second one was done by Condor and is a gorgeous pearlescent blue!
Yeah... there's some stuff I need to do, such as replace the yellow tyres with normal black ones (going for gatorskins), adjust the saddle angle, move the saddle back, get a shorter stem and add an extra layer of bartape in a colour that matches the saddle.
The ride is pretty good too!
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