Old 06-20-05 | 04:24 PM
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should i buy it? fuji professional program3

my job at a bike shop is dangerous, because it tempts me to buy things that maybe i shouldn't.

one of my coworkers offered to sell me a frameset for $150.
4 or 5 year old Fuji Professional ProGram3, with a Kinesis carbon fiber fork and a shimano 600 headset.

it's light and has a nice tight geometry, much better than the wack superslackness of my current frame on my fixie. i really want this frame. but it's got vertical dropouts, and i can't afford an eccentric hub.

how good of a deal is this for me, all things considered? considering that i can't really put more money into it. considering that i'll have to put spare-parts stem and bars in, considering that i'd have to switch over the bottom bracket from my current, old, secondhand, assortment-of-old-parts fixie--a job that i have neither tools nor experience to do. not to mention chainline...

feedback? advice? discouragement?
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