Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Catrin, if you knew me better, you would laugh as hard as I did at your comment.
I can barely tie my shoes (not kidding here), so there will be no hand built bikes by me. But, I would be happy to have them build something for me. Even DH, who is extremely mechanical, and expects to be doing bike repair in his retirement has no desire to build a frame. Both of us are not particularly into the color, painting, or decal aspects of bike frames. I just want a steel touring bike that fits me, with every single component exactly the way I want it and I figure the only way I can get that is to go custom. I made a lot of mistakes buying the 3 road bikes I have had, so I will not let this happen again.
You sound like me I am the one who wasn't even able to get a fire going in the fireplace last night with real logs - though the Duralog worked fine the night before (kind of hard to mess that one up). I have also reached the same decision that you did - trying not to waste money on stock builds that are not quite what I want and that would need expensive conversions...

It IS great that they are so close to you that you could cruise them on the bike - Gunnar isn't that close to me. This is likely a good thing...