Custom bike fit questions?

[Laguna]

Wait until you get to the real hard part.......the color.

Sounds like a great opportunity, would love to have you "blog" this from beginning to end as it would be very enlightening for the rest of us.

[Catrin]

Wait until you get to the real hard part.......the color.

Sounds like a great opportunity, would love to have you "blog" this from beginning to end as it would be very enlightening for the rest of us.

I know what color - though I can't go back and look through them again or I will change my mind

Go here and and look for Candy Plum over Charcoal - color dated 10/31/06. It is beautiful

I am sure that I will have plenty to say about this process - hopefully not TOO much

[Kerry1976]

Oh.My.God - that is the most beautiful color!

[kimikaw]

Love the color!

[Catrin]

Oh.My.God - that is the most beautiful color!

Isn't it?



The fitting went well today, my fitter is quite pleased with their initial design. While my design is based on the Gunnar Crosshairs, it will not be a cyclocross bike. The idea is to give me the lightest weight steel frame possible while maintaining the same level of stability that I have with my LHT. Therefore there won't be lots of brazeons, and the fork will be actually be what they use for the Roadie rather than for cyclocross. The design is built so that if I decide in the future that I want a more aggressive riding position I will be able to do so.

I will still be able to put racks and do very light credit card touring should I choose to do so, but as far as I am concerned, that is what my LHT is for. This bike is really not designed for carrying a lot of weight. THIS will be my go-fast bike, and we think that we can get the overall weight of the bike down to 20-22 pounds by the time we are done. Considering my LHT weighs 35 pounds, and she weighed 30 pounds when I brought her home, the sheer weight loss will help me in the hills.

I am very excited, and the order officially goes in next Friday - that is when I put down my deposit (pay day). The upgraded fork Gunnar suggested did bump the price, but I think the lighter fork will be worth it. The amount I am paying in taxes though made my jaw drop I knew taxes would be a lot but not THAT much!

Apparently a couple of years ago my LBS had another Gunnar built that was the same color I've selected, and they said it was just plain beautiful