After a few months of riding around on my bodged up £4 tip bike (Raleigh Record Ace) which I have converted to fixed, I have decided not to buy a new Langster, but instead to keep the Raleigh. So tomorrow the old bird goes away, and the next time I see her she will be resprayed (Gold of course) be sporting new 531 stickers, have a new stem and bottom bracket, new fixed wheels and, of course, have the old Raleigh head tube badge re-installed! Someone tell me I have made the right decision not buying a Langster but investing in the oldie
You did right - that's exactly what I'm riding! It's not too stiff in the BB area but it's a nice comfy frame for less than perfect roads. Also far less likely to be nicked (especially with guards and stickers all over it like mine!) .
I thought it was a Mini driven by a estate agent or was it recruitment agent in a Beetle. Oh I'm confused now!
Yes you did the right thing. It's much better, for my money, to have something individual and different.
a close shave. buying the langster is a bit like denying the holocaust in terms of moral equivalence.
All joking aside, it's a very nice 531 frame so given that it cost £4 and I suspect the rest of the bits will still come to a lot less than a langster + new wheels (you need to get the two together!) - it would've been a bit of a waste of money to buy it. Just don't come to Birmingham and stop next to me at the lights
I won't be coming to Birmingham in a hurry, but may well widn up at the lights next to you in Bristol. Thats where I work a lot of the time!!!
If it's going away for a respray, why not push the boat out, so to speak, and have the dropouts replaced with some track ends. You could even have the back end respaced to 120OLN at the same time. Voilà, a road geometry track bike, just like a Condor Pista, only nicer!
That's not a bad idea from Tim, if the frame was a better fit for me then I might bother doing that with a respray but it's fudged with a tall stem and seat-pin! I think I'll just pickup a Bob jackson frame whenever this one dies, although I expect that'll be a few years yet.
Why is it that every time I've managed to convince myself that I don't want a fixie another thread like this comes along to sow the seeds of doubt yet again?
