{"id":6671,"date":"2013-10-22T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2013-10-22T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:39:07","slug":"road-bike-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=6671","title":{"rendered":"Road Bike Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow along on Twitter or Facebook (links over to the right), you have noticed my excited postings yesterday when I had just talked with Chris from <a href=\"http:\/\/cyscocycles.com\/\">Cysco Cycles<\/a>. Earlier in the year, when I was in the middle of my frame drama with Cannondale, he&#8217;d contacted me about building something custom if the Cannondale thing didn&#8217;t work out. Fast forward 6 months, and I&#8217;m shopping for a frameset and realizing that the frames that have most everything that I want in both geometry, stiffness, and handling characteristics are pretty expensive, and all of them had tiny, nit-picky things about them that I didn&#8217;t like (fit not exactly right, BB standard that would mean changing cranks, etc). I was literally laying in bed half asleep, thinking about road bikes, when I remembered the conversation I&#8217;d had with Chris, and realized that I could get EXACTLY what I wanted in a custom bike for the same cost as some of the frames I&#8217;d been running through my head.<\/p>\n<p>So, late last week,I emailed him, and, over the weekend, we started the planning process. By yesterday (Monday) evening, I had the 3rd draft of a frame&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6672\" alt=\"CAD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CAD-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CAD-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CAD.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve talked about on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikeradio.com\/just-riding-along\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just Riding Along<\/a>, if you know exactly what you want, the custom process is magical. I&#8217;m getting a frame with the exact stack and reach measurements that I like, an oversized downtube &amp; swoopy seatstays (like this one featured in Bike Rumor a while back: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikerumor.com\/2013\/01\/14\/found-custom-stiff-yet-comfortable-titanium-road-bike-from-cysco-cycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Stiff Yet Comfortable Road Frame<\/a>), oversized chainstays, and a seat mast &amp; raw ti finish like <a href=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_md9y2wCMhp1rremy2o1_1280.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this bike<\/a>. We&#8217;re also throwing around the idea of some extra bottle bosses, but they may be too difficult to squeeze in on such a small frame. If I wanted, I could have full-run housing mounts instead of normal cable stops, but I&#8217;m not intent on full-run housing for a road bike like I am for an off-road bike. It&#8217;s nice to know that the option is there, though.<\/p>\n<p>Talking with Chris is great, because he sounds almost as enthused as I am, and, as an added bonus, we share feelings on the importance of standover and Chris King components.\u00a0We&#8217;ve got a few more small details to hash out before the final draft &amp; deposit, but it should be a go by the end of the week. I&#8217;m excited to not only get exactly the bike I want, but also have the cool factor of supporting a regional small business and having a gorgeous, one-of road bike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow along on Twitter or Facebook (links over to the right), you have noticed my excited postings yesterday when I had just talked with Chris from Cysco Cycles. Earlier in the year, when I was in the middle of my frame drama with Cannondale, he&#8217;d contacted me about building something custom if the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-1JB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}