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I agree with the rest that steel is the way to go, you will love it. If you can afford it get a track frame, but a road frame with short clearance will do, too.

In terms of drivetrains, Sugino is very popular.

I agree here also. Steel, especially if it is your first built bike. You can always upgrade once you have more of an idea of what you like and don't like.

Sugino has a messenger crank set that I actually just got for my new bike. They even have colours, I am not going to lie, mine is pink =)

You also mentioned velocitys. Go on ebay. They have hundreds of wheel sets super cheap but made with decent parts. It is definitely worth your time to look. I saved over $175 on my wheel set this way.

I can't decide how I feel about this. At first they look great then the more I watch them I feel like I am at a bad rave.

I'm well enough entrenched into hipster mode that it doesn't matter too much about being associated with my tight-jean clad brethren. I'll try one out.

put the timbuk and the chrome on and see how you like the way each feels?

I have one and I love it and swear up and down by it. Saved my computer when I had a really nasty fall too. Now I do like the way the chrome bag fits, but I don't like (and this is a horrible reason not to buy something) being associated with all the other assholes that have one because "it's the cool thing." I don't know if they are as rampant in england as they are here but it's like the bloody plague.

I think this is wonderful news.

I have done critical mass here. It never really took off the way I would like it to but it is picking up. I think critical mass is a wonderful idea. I have minimal riding experience in england but I know that here there are people hit, abused, ignored and just generally disrespected all the time here, critical mass forces people to realise there are cyclists around. In California it has got so big in some places it is escorted by police, which seems like a contradiction until you think about the fact that it means a whole team has had to be put together, and change the way they do things in order to accommodate cyclists.

Police try to mess around with cyclists all the time, I think it is great news that it has been cleared up.

Sedona?

is just a lot of red mountains mainly.

to see anything worth seeing tree wise gotta go all the way up to like flagstaff and around there.

I just went to the grand canyon for the first time and that was rather impressive. Can't live in AZ for 7 years and never go to the earth's vagina.

@snails - do you go to that awesome bike shop on the south side of Scottsdale? Can't remember the name but it's a little out of town and has a whole separate building devoted to sweet cruisers from Felt, Electra, etc - I could have bought the entire stock, if I could have fitted it in my hold baggage!

bicycle haus?

They are more of the hipster house. but they do carry some cool stuff. in Tempe where I live there is "dominics" they are fantastic. Really nice guys, always willing to help out and they carry a lot of everything I ever need.

so weird there are people that have been to az on here ha. I don't know why anyone would come here!

Thats fucked...

agreed. fully.

err.... what are these "trees" you speak of?

they are these rather large fuckers that tend to do something known as grow. Often in large clusters, anywhere and everywhere except the metropolitan Phoenix area and the Saraha desert.

Todays bike was brought to you by...

genius.

I liked Arizona... We went to the Barrett (sp?) Jackson auction there. But yeah, it was stinkin hot!

tis alright to visit. shite to live in. Nothing about it changes, but nothing is that cool here in the first place ha. I don't mind going up north, there are trees and seasons, you know, normal things hah

That happened all the time on my Peugot. I had no idea why or what to do about it and no one I spoke to did either. I just took it to be tightened on a regular basis. Someone from a bike co-op here said it was just because it was old?

Sorry to say it, but im a bit flushed in 28 degrees... cant say I'm missing the London cold. Time for Corona on the porch.

To be honest, I fucking hate Arizona weather. Sweating till you vomit on a regular basis gets old really really fast. I'll take rain and clouds any day. I will take English winter in a tee over this place ha

clearly, all men desire is to have this as their best friend.

http://www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/uploaded_images/dragon-717577.jpg

man it is so bad at the moment here in arizona. First rains since monsoon over the summer, and just drizzles like light piss, it's awful. And after having gone so long without rains the roads are like an ice rink of oil. dodgy shit.

New bike . . . face remains the same! :)

I envy all with a bareknuckle. If they weren't so fucking expensive here I'd have one in ever colour.

is that vagrant kitty enjoying feline fellatio?

you are the only person to have ever picked up on that. I sent that picture to my nan for gods sake. She is sharp that one and even she didn't catch it.

would it not be polite to at least ask Jess her age before directing our sexual frustration towards her?!

hahaha thanks for the concern. 20. you're all off the hook.

Hi Jess, the cat on the right is, frankly, giving me the hot sweats.

I will let him know the effect he is having on people ha

Is it bad to comment on fixed ladies looks?

I am not sure I follow you...?

the kid in flagstaff that is.

I am currently living but an hour or so away from you!

that bike just looks fuckin wrong ha

hello hello.
I am Jess.
I live in America right now, but I am from England and I am moving back in a month. I am from the southwest but I will probably be moving to the london area a few months after my big move.

I have no photo of my newest bike yet as she is not yet finished, tis however an IRO Mark V, velocity, Sugino messenger cranks, the other necessities will be bought this friday and I am well excited. =)

previous to this was a 1978 Peugot conversion. Her name was pertunia and we learnt a lot together. she was destroyed in an accident. Wear a helmet when you ride kids. Trust me.

I was a lion for halloween =)[I][/I]