£3k - What would you buy?

[Soltydog]

Only just started looking st their site, but did spot a few options that look cool.

If you are on facebook, have a look at their page. Quite a few of the custom jobs they make are posted on there (not sure what costs are for the various custom options though)

 

[bpsmith]

My comment with my only knowledge of bpsmith from here is that ti bike just doesn't seem to match your riding style.

Perhaps that's down to my pre conceptions of ti bikes being all day tourer, pannier racks and leather toe clips maybe rounded off with a brooks saddle. Don't ask me where all that came from

Probably don’t fit the stereotype, but does there always have to be one?

I would be fitting mine with Aeronova bars and Gumwall tyres. Wouldn’t be fitting it with panniers and mudguards though, you’re right.

 

[huwsparky]

Don't get hung up over 300g, it's nothing.

 

[ianrauk]

He has been doing more audaxes in the last year or two, although he's yet to slap a Carradice Longflap on the Van Nick.

I have been doing Audax far longer then the last year or two, but anyway, my Van Nick is a full on road racing frame, it has no bosses or mounts for any kind of mudguard or racks.

 

[jowwy]

It's so funny how people think Ti bikes are just for audax.............some people need to do some research before making comments and stereo typing people, just cause of the bike they ride

 

[StuAff]

No-one ever won any races on Ti, did they?

 

[bpsmith]

Slight change of tack. Might well purchase this frameset tomorrow:

Will look more like this to start with though, as have Campag Eurus wheels to fit.

It’s nothing if not bold, like the man himself.

 

[vickster]

Why’s it named after a type of onion?

 

[jowwy]

No-one ever won any races on Ti, did they?

 

[bpsmith]

Why’s it named after a type of onion?

Never heard of the Mario Onion?

I thought that you’d be pleased that it’s far from being black.

 

[vickster]

It's just ugly...camouflage is for tanks if you like it, that's what matters

I expect the cipollini onion existed before the cyclist

 

[bpsmith]

It is rather different, I agree. Liked it in a bike shop back in January when looking with my brother.

I suspect you might be right, but Mario has probably tried to wipe its existence out of history ever since.

 

[vickster]

I’d never heard of him... but I did know the onion

 

[bpsmith]

I had never heard of the onion.

 

[vickster]

I had never heard of the onion.

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