Originally Posted by
ascherer
I like the idea of learning to wrench on a bike like this one, as far as performance the result may still be only a mediocre impression of what a road bike is like and he wouldn't "get it". <shrugs>
I started on BSO's as many of us did, one piece crank, all steel, imperfect at best, fussing and futzing, trial and error with good practice and experience being the valuable outcome.
Real bikes were a piece of cake after all that.