Stupid Thread: Your Next Bike Absent Financial Considerations - Page 6

smontanaro · #76 08-09-2022, 04:38 PM

I went a different route. I took Doug Fattic's class and am building my own frame. I'm getting there:

A bit more filing, brake posts, and various small braze-ons and it will be time for paint.

If you can swing it, I highly recommend it. In addition to being a first class framebuilder and painter, as most of you know, Doug is an all around great guy.

nortx-Dave · #77 08-09-2022, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by cgolvin

Your scenario is actually the only way I would get another bike (out, blasphemer!). But, in that scenario, it would either be a Crumpton or an Argonaut with Lightweight wheels (rim brake, of course).

+1

I couldn't top my Bishop in steel, so maybe custom carbon. Or, something with a much bigger gas tank than mine!

cnighbor1 · #78 08-10-2022, 02:21 PM

Davidson Titanium Road Bike for 43mm tires

merckx · #79 08-12-2022, 06:36 AM

Just three:

A Telecom Merckx. Preferably TSX, and always century geo. Campag. C-Record, and GP4 with del Mondos.

A Singer

Anything that Brian is cooking up. Anything.

kitsnob · #80 08-12-2022, 10:57 AM

Considering I JUST picked up a LLEWLYN Manorina 6 months ago, I'm always lusting/looking at N+1. So my next acquisition would most likely be a BASTION WW build with lots of high bling carbon goodies (Darimo, THM, Schmolke etc)
Also in the "mix" would be an ENGLISH, a BISHOP, a CRUMPTON, a FIREFLY and the list goes on & on & on .....
Considering I can't ride stock, all my "wish list" builds would be custom.....

Coffee Rider · #81 08-12-2022, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by merckx

Just three:

Anything that Brian is cooking up. Anything.

I feel like a Luddite for having to ask, but who is Brian?

mhespenheide · #82 08-12-2022, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Rider

I feel like a Luddite for having to ask, but who is Brian?

I'd bet it's Brian Chapman, https://www.chapmancycles.com/, who does phenomenal custom work in steel including sui generis original fabrication of parts beyond the frame itself.

Coffee Rider · #83 08-12-2022, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mhespenheide

I'd bet it's Brian Chapman, https://www.chapmancycles.com/, who does phenomenal custom work in steel including sui generis original fabrication of parts beyond the frame itself.

Turns out I was already following him on Instagram.

kiwisimon · #84 08-12-2022, 03:24 PM

I've got two bikes from Bozeman. A steel roadie and a Ti All Road.
don't lust for anything else, but would love one of these with disc brakes for the times I want to MTB (about 3 times a year)

72gmc · #85 08-12-2022, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Rider

Turns out I was already following him on Instagram.

Chapman Cycles' account is one of my favorite things about Instagram.

AngryScientist · #86 08-12-2022, 04:25 PM

This bike is on ebay right now; in my size. If I were in a money (and by extension, space) were no object mindset - I would buy it and built it with Super Record and Boras.

Web1111a · #87 08-12-2022, 06:05 PM

[QUOTE=AngryScientist;3131745]This bike is on ebay right now; in my size. If I were in a money (and by extension, space) were no object mindset - I would buy it and built it with Super Record and Boras.

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Angry

It has a Shimano Sticker how would the bike feel about that?

AngryScientist · #88 08-12-2022, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Web1111a

Angry

It has a Shimano Sticker how would the bike feel about that?

Since I am already spending big; I would also buy a Magnum

eephotog · #89 08-12-2022, 08:44 PM

Not sure if this fits the spirit of the post, but I'd take a few months off work to do a serious frame building class.

It's not going to be as pretty, but I tend to enjoy my own screw-ups building stuff.

If it has to be a current production bike, maybe an aethos?

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Coffee Rider · #90 08-12-2022, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by eephotog

Not sure if this fits the spirit of the post, but I'd take a few months off work to do a serious frame building class.

It's not going to be as pretty, but I tend to enjoy my own screw-ups building stuff.

If it has to be a current production bike, maybe an aethos?

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When you factor in the value of your time, a bike you build yourself is probably the most expensive of them all. If I were getting (which I'm not) a mass-built bike right now, it would probably also be an Aethos.