WSD steel/making it fit (long, lots of ?s)

[eofelis]

I'm definitely not! I had a 130 cm stem on the surly trying to make it long enough.

I have a bizarrely long torso or something apparently.

I had an 80cm stem on it!

[Owlie]

Cataboo, part of me wants a tank, because the roads around here are crap. Part of me wants a ZOOM! bike. I'm going to do my serious shopping wherever I go to graduate school, since I don't want to have to move two bikes until I need to.

My plan for the moment is to go try some out and see what I fall in love with...I feel like my current bike was sort of an arranged marriage.

Good to know that the Pacer has a relatively short top tube...

That's funny. The pink is part of what I like about the Terry Isis. I see it as a "serious, ride like a girl" pink. Not a prissy, little princess, pink.

That's what I mean. It's that "I ride with the boys and beat them every time" pink. I cannot pull that off. I'm a slowpoke.

[Cataboo]

Owlie,

Get a surly & a go fast bike. Sell your avail so someone else can fall in love with riding. You've been wanting to change the avail ever since you got her practically, so after the initial, oooh my bike, you won't miss her

[Owlie]

We'll see once I've gotten that fitting. If I can persuade her to work with me, then I'll buy that Surly (if it fits!), keep her for a while (as a go-fast in summer, trainer bike in winter), change the parts I want as they wear out, and see what I want to do with her once I've gotten that next go-fast bike (stay on as trainer bike, fair-weather commuter, backup road bike, sell.)

If not, I'm buying a new go-fast bike, then replacing the bar tape and plugs (there's a chunk out of one of them!) on the Avail and selling, I think.