rant about delivery
 

I ordered myself a langster last week. and after several days of nail biting it finally came in. I was excited because my allez needs a new bb and cranks now. I checked the box and it was the wrong size and the wrong color, it wasnt even a little close. So my boss got on the phone with the rep and he agreed to send the correct bike out. I was kinda pissy so i got out several catalouges and ran thru them, for me to build up a pake frame, using pake cranks, dimension wheels, cheap bars and cheap stem, a cheap seatpost, an aheadset. I come up to ten bucks more than what my langster will be with shipping.

still deabting if i might get the pake anyway

Get the pake. I don't really like the look of langsters. It wasn't meant to be.

dude, the langster is wicked light, the pake is a tank. just saying.

Pake Pake Pake

it will be about the same quality component wise and the langster will earn you a whole lot less scene points but it will be a less tankish ride

there is not much of a scene here, the town has a pop of less than 20,000

the cinelli vigorelli has been talking ot me today for some reason
http://www.businesscycles.com/graphics/Vigorelli.jpg

so i may give the langster a few months to see if i really dig the fixie thing and then look at the cinelli

I know this is the ultimate BF cliche, but I remember reading
the spec sheet for that Vigorelli and being surprised by its
rather "slack" geometry. I seriously doubt that matters to
anyone for whom it was a tossup between the Langster and
the Pake.

I decided on the langster.

I can deal with slack geometry, if i need twitchy i still have my tri-bike, but odds are any fixie i own will never see a velodrome. i was really digging on the pake because of price and color. more than anything i wanted to see if was possible to build a bike for cheaper than i could buy a ready built one.

scene points, i think you just broke my heart.

Mercier Kilo TT.

that cinelli is so fly

eewwww Pake.

+1

yet...


Eeew, Langster.

Did you check the contents in the box? A lot of times a companies will just take a frame throw it in a random box they have that the object will fit in (a random frame box)

I've gotten a terrible one frame in a fit bike co frame and Animal Scerbo bars In a United Bikes bars box. Scares me every time. But I'm used to it now. I've even gotten stuff in a triscuts box before.

it came from the factory, and yeah i checked it, it was brown. they had the wrong part number, my boss actually entered the wrong number when filling out the form

Pake.

Heavy bikes are good for you.

Once when building up a kid's bike by Giant for the shop, I found the stem wrapped in a piece of cardboard with the Gary Fischer logo on it. Suspicious?