merci !
On verra, je veux garder la surprise, mais il va etre tubeless en 1x11. Je voulais une geo vraiment compact et stiff (style tarmac) mais avec assez de clearance pour rentrer du 32mm, un peu dans le même style que le bike du gars de GCN.
The tube set for Columbus spirit cost 330$ Canadian, and it takes about 12 hours to build a frame completely with hand tools, let alone cnc mills. These 3k steel frames are just for your typical upperclass roadie with no concept of value.
You can get a custom geometry Marinoni with a fork for about 1200 last I checked.
You can't compare some cheap colombus spirit to reynold 953, TTS3 or even colombus xCR that are more expensive, but much lighter, much stiffer. Thoses tubeset will go for around 1K to even 2K. Also, you simply cannot compare a soft lugged marinoni to builders like Rob English, Stinner, Stelbel, Donhou, etc.
It's the same as comparing a company like Blade or Falco carbon fiber wheels to Zipp, bontrager, Enve, etc.
Working in the cycling business, I've had the chance to tests a lot of different bikes in the past 5 years and nothing was at my taste. So I've looking for a custom framebuilder for the past year or two and after all the research I think I have a very good concept of the value of well made steel bikes. For me, it's a good value since it's pretty much the same price as any big brand high-end carbon frameset. As stiff if not stiffer, almost as light and custom geo, specs, paintjob. I agree that the fact the bike is unique goes in the price, but I'm happy to pay for a bike that I'm going to keep for years and that I won't see anywhere else.
In my eyes, the ones who have no concept of value are people who buy 8-10K italian frameset like pinarello or colnago.
I thought of titanium, but a good one with the specs I want will go for minimum 5K US and I'm not even talking about custom carbon like argonaut, festka or tsubasa.
