Originally Posted by
superdex
For the
frame? Dude. You're in full-on custom territory, and no shop is going to carry samples. Get to know a local builder and dream away. 30 seconds of google:
Custom Bikes ? LaBerta & Sons Cycles
Even if that's for the whole bike, you're into territory that a) will be a great ride and 2) shops won't have stock built up. I say Gunnar. or
Milwaukee (the cool thing about Milwaukee is you can customize things like rack/fender mounts --for your touring needs, donchya'know).
Thanks, I am looking at complete at that price.
I would love to build a frame up, just not sure how much of it I could do.