Custom - is it worth it?

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I've got a Robin Mather custom. I was very lucky - it may have taken ~18 months from order to receipt of the bike, but it was everything I asked for and has amazing attention to detail.

I'm so envious - from my earlier post on this thread you'll realise that I really wanted Robin to build me a bike. I concur with the rest of your comments as well - the frame Robin Mather designed for me that never got built was pretty much a copy of a bike I've done thousands of miles on which is very comfortable.

I've got that substantially on the chinese custom Ti frame I eventually bought instead but it's effectively made on a production line - the boys from the bike shop say you can tell that different people did the welds on parts of the bike for example

I visited Robin Mather a couple of times in his workshop near Bath and I really liked the idea of a single craftsman making a frame just for me from beginning to end.

Maybe one day....