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Hello,

Since it's clear to me that you know more about this subject than myself, I reach out for advice: Are any of you familiar with Soma or IRO? Opinions? Thanks in advance.

The Potter to Black Magician comment is brilliant. I understand all the comments regarding negative comments and such. But it strikes me that it would be more poseur to try and build a "genuine" messenger bike and ride that when I'm not a messenger! i just want an SS/FG so I can get stronger, not cooler. That was part of the point I was trying to make, that it makes simply me smile to think that my foot's still attached to my leg, that I can still ride my bicycles after all I went through. You can be sure that the stock bits that are inferior will be tossed, and stickers (have to get Montreal in there somehow) are imminent. I have a pair of Velocity Deep V, Wheelsmith, White Industries wheels that are the first step...

BTW, The Giant Bowery is named after an NYC neighborhood on the lower east side of Manhattan...

I'm reading some of these posts and I have to laugh. Do you realize how self-absorbed you sound as you dictate the terms of what's cool and what's not? I am born and raised in NYC. I've ridden the streets of Manhattan since I was a schoolboy. Almost lost my right foot to a cabbie who ran a red light. Took me two years to walk properly again. After this long recovery, I'm back out there again, have ridden almost 1800 miles in 2007 thus far, with a long-term goal of riding Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011. Part of the preparation involves the Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200K in 2008. Because it' involves Boston and it's part of my recovery from near disaster and there's a Boston edition Langster and the geometry fits my body well, I reserved one. But if I read you right, because I want this bike I'm not cool; when you see me you will assume I'm just a coffee shop poseur. You'll disrespect me when you see me on this bike, blissfully unaware that I have eight other bikes in my garage (vintage junkie - and three of them I built myself from mongrels). You'll look at my bike and not my muscle tone as you decide I'm not worth speaking to. Perhaps you should consider taking a moment or two to get to know someone, judging them by their character instead by some artificially-created social standard. The coolest thing you can do is decide for yourself what is good instead of relying on the crowd to decide for you.