For someone who loves bikes, I find it very difficult to be satisfied with what I see in bike shops or even worse, in supermarkets. Marketing and profitability are dictating the market and your choice is more or less narrowed down to Aluminum or Carbon, MTB or road bike. Basta.

What if you want something else ? A custom geometry: because you're not the average Joe, a specific tubeset: because you really like those thinner steel tubes, your own paint job: because you don't really dig the flashy colors or the big logos...

Solution: ask a custom framebuilder to do it for you, they're harder to find, but they're well worth it. And while you're here, why not try ?
 - Last update: 04/09/2010 -