Originally Posted by
Sirrus Rider
Me neither. From what I gather from site that it's a bunch of women doing the building for other women. What I find most distressing is many women (Note: I said many not all) get caught up in the novelty of a project. Consequently, in a case such as this they're all gungho about building these monstrosities, ride them once or twice then never again..
A lot of men do the same thing. I need to stop buying more frames and build up the ones I've got now before the garage is completely filled up.
(I do have one excuse; I've put four coworkers on bikes this year AND vastly increased the price of Varsitys on eBay.)
I went through the whole site and saw a lot of ******* and Chevettes getting a new lease on life. Maybe one derailleur hanger got ground off but the rest were fine. Cable guides are no biggie to replace and most of them weren't touched anyways.
I think the fixie craze is a good thing as it gets a lot of younger riders on bikes and they are using them for transportation, recreation, socialization. If you read the SS/FG forum much, you'll find most of them do not favor butchering nice frames or even semi-nice frames that are vintage and most of them have several bikes, including roadies.