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09-19-09, 03:44 PM
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By xavierjaguilar (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/xavierjaguilar), shot with Canon PowerShot SD750 (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=Canon+PowerShot+SD750&make=Canon) at 2009-09-19
**More pictures and component info is all on my velospace (http://velospace.org/node/23342) if anyone's interested.
Tim Sanner of Sanner Cycles (http://www.sannercycles.com/Home.htm) (out of Palo Alto, CA) built this AWESOME custom frame for me. I wanted to post about it because Tim was amazing to work with and I'd like to see his frames get popular. Without you coming to my house and just riding the bike yourself, I can't really describe how incredible this bike feels other than to say the handling is EXACTLY how I wanted it: the perfect balance between responsive and smooth. Every part of the bike fits me like a glove, it's incredible, I'll never go non-custom again. It was completely worth the money. The Sanner prices are some of the best I've found for a full custom frame & fork. Depending on options, $800 or so gets you a custom frame built to your exact height, reach, etc in any powder coat color in their inventory. It's $1000 if you want lugged construction (I couldn't resist).
For a long time I was riding the IRO Mark V which is a great starting frame, but I wanted to trade up. I decided I wanted to buy a frame made in the USA rather than a mass-produced Korean or Taiwanese frame like IRO, Mercier, Windsor, Soma, and a lot of the other fixed/ss bike manufacturers make. Pretty much, my only available option was to save some cash and get a custom frame, but I was worried that I didn't know enough about bike geometry to know what I wanted in a frame. Tim was really knowledgeable and friendly when I had questions, you don't have to know a lot about geometry to have Tim make you a custom frame. He asked me how I wanted the bike to ride/handle and you can be as hands-on or hands-off as you like. I asked Tim a lot of questions and read a lot online about geometry, and now I feel like a know a ton about how it works. We worked out every single last detail of geometry that could be tweaked, down to the millimeter. Literally. And I love the result, the frame's perfect. So Check out the Sanner Cycles website some time, and consider them if you're thinking about getting a custom frame.
(I also wrote a testimonial about my experience for the Sanner Cycles website here (http://www.sannercycles.com/Testis.htm) if you're interested)
By xavierjaguilar (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/xavierjaguilar), shot with Canon PowerShot SD750 (http://profile.imageshack.us/camerabuy.php?model=Canon+PowerShot+SD750&make=Canon) at 2009-09-19
**More pictures and component info is all on my velospace (http://velospace.org/node/23342) if anyone's interested.
Tim Sanner of Sanner Cycles (http://www.sannercycles.com/Home.htm) (out of Palo Alto, CA) built this AWESOME custom frame for me. I wanted to post about it because Tim was amazing to work with and I'd like to see his frames get popular. Without you coming to my house and just riding the bike yourself, I can't really describe how incredible this bike feels other than to say the handling is EXACTLY how I wanted it: the perfect balance between responsive and smooth. Every part of the bike fits me like a glove, it's incredible, I'll never go non-custom again. It was completely worth the money. The Sanner prices are some of the best I've found for a full custom frame & fork. Depending on options, $800 or so gets you a custom frame built to your exact height, reach, etc in any powder coat color in their inventory. It's $1000 if you want lugged construction (I couldn't resist).
For a long time I was riding the IRO Mark V which is a great starting frame, but I wanted to trade up. I decided I wanted to buy a frame made in the USA rather than a mass-produced Korean or Taiwanese frame like IRO, Mercier, Windsor, Soma, and a lot of the other fixed/ss bike manufacturers make. Pretty much, my only available option was to save some cash and get a custom frame, but I was worried that I didn't know enough about bike geometry to know what I wanted in a frame. Tim was really knowledgeable and friendly when I had questions, you don't have to know a lot about geometry to have Tim make you a custom frame. He asked me how I wanted the bike to ride/handle and you can be as hands-on or hands-off as you like. I asked Tim a lot of questions and read a lot online about geometry, and now I feel like a know a ton about how it works. We worked out every single last detail of geometry that could be tweaked, down to the millimeter. Literally. And I love the result, the frame's perfect. So Check out the Sanner Cycles website some time, and consider them if you're thinking about getting a custom frame.
(I also wrote a testimonial about my experience for the Sanner Cycles website here (http://www.sannercycles.com/Testis.htm) if you're interested)