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One day I’m sitting there, minding my own business, when a bike rep comes to the shop to show us the new bike line he started to carry. In the course of him showing us catalogs and price sheets, he took us out to his car where he showed us a particular frame that was a cyclocross frame…and it was all black…and the price was right.

So I bought it right there on the spot.

Oh sure, I measured it…made sure the top tube was alright, and the seat tube length was kosher and all that. And a few weeks later, I built it up. Looks killer too! Black everywhere, it’s totally murdered out, as those crazy kids like to say.

And then I noticed that the cranks rubbed against the chainstays. Hmmm, I decided to upgrade cranks instead of just getting a new BB spindle. (I know I’m losing more and more readers cuz this is getting techy, but since there are only two readers anyway, I know that at least DP is still reading)

So Dave, here’s what I did. I got new cranks and installed them, only to find that they rub too! WTF! Is this bike designed only for mtn cranks and not able to take an external bearing BB? I ran into this same problem with a customer’s Ibis a while back, and his bike had to have a square-taper BB or an ISIS BB. Oh great… I then took some spacers and after messing around with the bottom bracket cup spacing, I ended up with a 2.5mm spacer on the drive-side (yep, only one reader left at this point) and the little safety-tab thingy on the non-drive side doesn’t quite want to go into place.

Well, now what? I’m also finding at this point that the new frame isn’t as stiff as my old frame was, and that’s bumming me out. I decided to look around at our various distributors and after about a week of measurement-taking, I ordered another frame, this time a full-on road frame. It was on super closeout sale and so I pulled the trigger and waited anxiously for it arrive. And when it did?

I see why they’re on closeout. It’s so ugly, nobody would ever buy one! I mean Jesus, I’m going to have to buy some Capt America or Spiderman underoos just to ride this thing. Holy crap, I didn’t sign on for this. But hey, it’s so damn loud I shouldn’t get hit by a car because I wasn’t seen at least.

Gotta look on the bright side, knowhatimeen? And this thing is BRIGHT!!!

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