Well, I may not be an aficionado (yet) cause I'm only about to start build on my first one speed. Ordered the frame and fork and am waiting for delivery now. I'm 50 and used to build bikes when I was a kid. In the early 70s choppers were a big deal. Most kids would cut and bang two forks together to get the chopper look but it looked like crap and had a habit of coming apart. We used to steal metal warning flag poles from Con Ed and gas company dig sites and use those. I had a neighbor whose father welded and he used to tighten them up for us real nice. I sure wish I had taken some pictures back then, those were sweet bikes. My first job was as a mechanic at the bike rental in Prospect Park. Minumum wage was $1.60 an hour and I was 12 years old making $1.65!