Originally Posted by
safariofthemind
Why are you building up from a frame and not taking a stock bike and modifying it to suit (other than to be able to have a bike that's different from the million LHTs out there)? :scratchinghead:
Partly as a learning experience and partly to have a bike I built from the frame up. I began this year vowing to learn to do my own wrenching. Except for one broken spoke, I accomplished that. I refurbished an old MTB during the summer to send with my son to college. This is just the next step.