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While I'm still (just about) young enough to entertain ideas of going quicker on a bicycle, I thought I'd finally pull the trigger on a custom road bike. All the bikes I own are steel, and I'm a bit ti-curious, so I plumped for Titanium. And the only place to get one without resorting to black market organ trading is from Mr Burls.
I had a fit with the Bike Whisperer a couple of years ago, so started with a return visit to make sure all was still good and to get my contact points mapped out. After Scherrit produced a BikeCAD for me, Justin came up with the final version.
From this:
To this:
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=16991
(long headtube is long)
Contact points are in exactly the same place, which is nice.
I have these to go on it
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1776&pictureid=16885
And then in the summer, I'll get to ride it up some mountains.