Originally Posted by
IvyCap
Are you building this for aesthetics? If you really intend on "pummeling hills" you might want to do your research on such topics as well as the whole lot on fixed gears and single speeds. And for someone who bought a Tri/TT frameset you more than likely haven't done so.
I had to make a quick decision. My roommate had $500 scholarship for a bike from his cubscouts and I was looking through bikes and saw this as a good deal on nashbar and bought it. His scholarship would exhaust May 12, so it's still win win.