Tough crowd. I liked the bike, but I'll take original over nice any day. The cable thing was a little weird, I'm betting he's trying to figure out a way to tack it down without it rubbing the crap out of the fauxstone finish. As for the chainring, I've been known to have similar ghettoness on conversions for a while before tracking down some short chainring bolts. As for all the other parts, y'all just jealous your parts bin isn't deep enough to build up something like that.