Originally Posted by
ddeadserious
I played middleman on a sale of a purple Draft Lite from a friend to my brother last night, and I fell in love with the way it rode. I was nice and upright, it rode like a Cadillac compared to the aluminum Swift and had such a solid feel. Just seems like a bike I could buy, put a comfier saddle on, and just ride it without the itch to upgrade a bunch of stuff. I could totally handle the red one. Your draft is very nice, definitely digging the subdued neutral tones(the complete opposite of how they come now). The Swift has a Cane Creek headset and the BB/crank is just a generic black alloy set. Some part(either the spider arms or the chainring) is slightly bent, but I've had absolutely no issues with it.
The product SE produces is totally undermined I feel, especially with their newer models. They aren't bad intro bikes by any means. Thanks for the compliment on my draft, however there isn't one stock component left on that frame. The components it came with were horrid, but I feel that that has changed over the couple years SE has had to play around with things. I had a friend who purchased an SE Draft Light fairly recently and I was surprised at how much better his bike felt stock compared to mine when I bought it. But then again I bought the draft when they were first entering the ss/fg bike game.