Birthday Present Options
 

My 30th birthday is coming up and I was going to put money toward one of a couple options. Which one would you choose?

My current daily commuter/around town bike is a Centurion Dave Scott Ironman that is running as a 42/14 singlespeed with an 32h Open Pro wheelset. These are the options I was looking at.

1. LBS can remove the ultegra hub and install a formula hub, new spokes, cog and redished for $150. Basically convert the Centurion to fixed.
2. Order a Kilo TT from bikes direct $349 (my fiance likes this option the least only because I'd be stuffing ANOTHER bike into our apartment :D
3. Order one of the track wheelsets from bikesdirect.com $120-150
4. ??? open to suggestions.
5. Build my own and lose my mind with frustration.

I know the price range is all over the place, but I am trying to get an idea of which route some of the more experience cyclists out there would take.

Just order a new rear wheel if you want to convert it... No sense spending more than is necessary.

#5.

Get a Dura-Ace to Open pro wheelset. Same price as a Kilo TT but oh so sexy. That or build your own.

#1 sounds like an entirely sh**ty idea. I'm with the above three posters.

EDIT: Happy birthday! Don't worry about the crisis, it comes after the 40th! Yay!

#5

Because you learn a lot, its fun, and you will feel great riding on something you built.

#5

#5

just cuz im doin it! and i think its simply fun...

none of those, buy a single rearwheel from benscycles, then take the rest get a new crankset.

get the new kilo frameset with better tubing when it comes out

i would say build your own because its fun but it can definitely be frustrating calculating chainline and cutting forks for threadless and such and its more expensive. so if you have already had the fun of building a bike in the past its ok to skip that and go with a complete. though the kilo is pretty budget and i felt like it was kind of plastic feeling when i rode it. but maybe thats because just prior i had tested my other friends bareknuckle. check out IRO. they ride awesome and i like how you can still choose pretty much everything you want on the site. especially cog size i was super pumped on that option.

#5 Building your own anything is much funner/fulfilling!

When is this new Kilo coming out? (not that i'd be getting one) Any links?

Dude, you're a grown up now. Make your own decisions already. :beer:

But really, I'd also recommend you to NOT to go for option #1.

#1. hell no. unless you like unnecessary spending.
#2. blah
#3. yeah, that would work.
#4. get hotbike to make you something pretty. or make a personal airplane and fly away for a while. somewhere warm.
#5. that sounds like the funnest. besides #4.

bikesdirect.com has wheelsets? links? i was just over there and didn't see anything but full bikes.

#5

im doing the exact same thing right now with the same frame!