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01-22-09, 11:31 PM
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bike builders
Anyone have links to some sites similar to these:
https://www.missionbicycle.com/order
https://shop.irocycle.com/shop/pages.php?pageid=7
Basically, any site that let's you "customize" a bike on their parts?
https://www.missionbicycle.com/order
https://shop.irocycle.com/shop/pages.php?pageid=7
Basically, any site that let's you "customize" a bike on their parts?
01-23-09, 01:35 PM
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Ben's does this too, but not with the slick Flash interface.
Find it here.
The other obvious option is having your LBS help speck out and order a bunch of stuff. It's nice in the same way. You don't have to know which BB you want, but do you want to customize some parts. It seems to be a good compromise for folks who have been into bikes for a while, but maybe new to riding fixed.
Find it here.
The other obvious option is having your LBS help speck out and order a bunch of stuff. It's nice in the same way. You don't have to know which BB you want, but do you want to customize some parts. It seems to be a good compromise for folks who have been into bikes for a while, but maybe new to riding fixed.
01-23-09, 02:13 PM
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i was going ot get a bike made from mission bikes. i really like there colors, and you can send them color codes and they will paint it any color you want. the bike i was going to build was about $830. i found a Pista for $600 and bought that. i wish i went with missionbikes, now i am spendign money on parts that i could have gotten already on my bike from them. oh well, i am learning more this way. but they had a lot of options. IRO was pretty good, but i got sick of all teh flash. i look while i am rendering at work, and if it is a large prokect my computer is slow, and all the flash kills me.
01-23-09, 02:15 PM
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the flash IRO site is a huge jump from the super basic site they had when i ordered. It wasn't nearly as cool picking out my parts from school down menus instead of some sort of flash factory where they bring you different parts on hooks.
01-23-09, 03:22 PM
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How do you like your IRO bike?
01-23-09, 03:41 PM
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I've had it for a year I have no complaints whatsoever. The cheap pedals you can get from IRO suck, they hurt my feet pretty bad on longer rides or when climbing big hills, so i replaced them with gr9s. I haven't had to true the wheels at all and I live in a town that has tons of brick roads and pot holes. The front wheel bit the dust in an unfortunate meeting with a curb at high speeds due to me being an idiot, but i can't imagine many wheels could have stood up to that. The whole bike is pretty light out of the box. I haven't had to deal with any customer service issues recently(it seems like the company has gotten bigger since I last had to call) but at least a year ago I called once and Tony answered it real quick and answered my questions perfectly.
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