Quote Originally Posted by jocelynlf View Post
I like the B&G combination, but it's just a personal bias. (GO STEELERS!)

It looks like an awesome bike. Look at those 650c wheels! Woohoo!

Years ago when I bought my mountain bike I decided to sleep on it for ONE night. The next day when I went back to buy the bike the really cool color I wanted had been sold. The only other bike they had in my size was the same model but was a horrible color. The color was called "citrus green" but it was more like a pissy metallic Gatorade yellow.

I was less than enthused about the color, but I bought the bike anyway.

I fell in love with the bike the first time I took it out for a ride.

That bike is still with me 10 years later, and although it's been more of a utility bike recently, I still love this bike, warts & all. I love how ugly the color is and how out-of-style the geometry is. And good lord it is heavy! This essentially means that the bike is theft-proof, which is very important to me these days.

If I ever decide to get another bike I'm gonna buy the ugliest thing I can find. .
I just had to post seperately about the bomb theft proofness of bikes. That's a funny way to put it, but true. One of my bike buds has a nice new carbon, but rides it only for certain things. He rides his 30somthing old Schwin race/road bike complete w/well broken Brooks in race saddle. To ME it is a gorgeous bike because I know what it really is. To anyone else as he says, "who would want to steal my old bike outta the rack?". Recently I had a theft attempt on one of my new bikes. They only picked mine because of what it was, gheez. I have a very old bike myself I've considered refurbushing that's about like this and heavy as can be... maybe I'll take her on now, vs getting new.