>>1071813nah fifty's fine, just make sure to get cheep grocery panniers, a rear fender, and keep it locked outside at all times. Pretend not to own it until it can be proven that you do, and then get touchy and SUPER defensive. Make sure to flagrantly call other people's masculinity into question.
>>1071809Thanks, I'm really proud of having actually finished it. Truth be told I still need to properly true and tension the rear wheel...
Okay, I'm just gonna drop some more details on this since no one asked. I forgot to mention but I got a set of the Velo Orange wing nuts. Work real nice but you need a chain tensioner, hence the Surly tuggnut. I also laced the front wheel three-leading, three-trailing. Memes! The fender on the rear needed to be unbolted easily to make room to remove the rear wheel. Instead of remembering that I could just use, ya know, some actual wingnuts for the task, I got a set of "honjo #8 u-ring type daruma" to hold the fender on, but the stays that came with my fender were a svelte 3.5mm diameter and the Honjo hardware called for 5mm diameter stays. Oops. I very nearly gave up on a solution after trying a bunch of different things, then finally struck on using some brass tubing from my local hardware store to shim the fender stays out to a better size. So yeah, the fender stays on the rear are capped off with a length of brass tubing each to facilitate the mounting of a $30 set of bolts that I didn't actually need if I had just realized that regular wing nuts would have worked. Oops. I am also not proud of the nitto stem/handlebar, as my bike flagrantly states "NITTO NITTO NITTO" across the front now.
Also to whoever suggested I get a "finishing kit", fudge off bud. No way I'd get a quality -stem -seatpost -crank -handlebars -saddle for under fifty quid. Also normies already 'mire b/c they don't know what they're looking at to begin with. "Oh, is that one of those 'fast bicycles'?"
