I see.

Dookie can tell another adult male, from the safety of the internet, to "take a deep breath, big guy," or he can suggest I take my meds; but, interestingly, dookie can't handle someone demonstrating with a few questions and a yawn the fact that dookie doesn't have anything to say about the subject, except to take personal shots at his fellow forumites.

Act and write like a man.

Instead of making snotty remarks about other people and their tastes in bikes, tell us what YOU know about bicycles.

How much knowledge about bicycles has dookie shared on this forum?

He has told other people their bikes stink, but not why.

He has told other people to take a breath or take their meds, but he hasn't told us anything about bikes except that HE knows all about 'em and WE don't know nuthin'.

Really?
You sold bikes at WalMart and raised and lowered the saddles for the little boys and girls?

Or perhaps you attended Serotta's fitting school and have a Serotta fitting bike?

Credentials?

Degrees?

Too late to tell us about that professional fitting school you paid so much money to attend, because we won't believe you now.

Why don't you just blow it out your sputnik?

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I have a Bianchi Pista I bought in 2005.
I've replaced everything on the bike except the frame.

I keep looking for a frame and fork I like better, in terms of function (cause I don't care that much about how it looks), and, in the meantime, I use the Pista frame as a place to store parts and to learn about fitting.

Last year I received a fitting from a world-famous bike-fitter.
He and his father have patented their fitting method.
It involves mirrors and lasers and computers and physical therapist assistants.
Speaking of phyiscal therapists, my personal phyisical therapist, who lectures nationally to other physical therapists (they pay money to listen to him speak), offered to pay for my fitting if he could sit in on it and watch.
People fly here from all around the world to get a fitting from this guy, scheduling months in advance (he has a long waiting list).
Maybe this world-famous bicycle-fitter participates anonymously on this very forum, and I have done dookie a terrible injustice.
Stranger things have happened.

Anyway, I like the Pista a lot.
I like its short wheelbase, including the short distance from the bottom bracket to the front axle.
I can't think of a production frameset that has a steeper head tube angle and a shorter rake.
If and when I find a custom frame builder I like, I will probably have him make a frame very close in geometry to the Pista.

For my other main riding bike, I have a Surly Karate Monkey set up as a fixed gear Ice Bike.

The Surly folks really thought this one out, as they did with every other frame they've designed.

Unhappily, it weighs too much to use year around, but it keeps me riding during blizzards, safely and comfortably.
Just me and the sand trucks.

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I have nothing personal against dookie.

It just so happens that internet bullies push my button.

When 14 year olds get on their daddy's computer and act like they know it all ("everybody has a stupid bike and doesn't know anything"), something just draws me to them.

Especially if they ride a sputnik.

I mean, how many people on this forum would even admit to owning a sputnik, let alone riding one?

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At my local bike shop, probably the best bike shop in the world, and much better than any bike shop dookie goes to, the majority of the mechanics ride some type of Surly frame.

I like Surly's.

Good features and built stout.

However, the Pista frame suits MY "special" riding style much better than anything else possibly could, and especially so compared to a sputnik.

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Hey, dookie, have you figured it out, yet?

Get it?

(nudge, nudge)