What type of bike builder are you ?

[clockworkgazz]

I look for bargains and then rush about with no real plan buying unsuitable stuff and if the bike doesn't get sold, will get it sort of right about 2 years latter

 

[digitalkreation]

1. I'm......probably the slowest builder on here
2. I buy all the bits before I start fitting them :?
3. I gun down NOS stuff on eBay at Stupid O'Clock :twisted:
4. I get bored easily :roll:
5. Goto step 1

Neill

I'm with Neill. My bikes don't even move until I have all the parts, then it's time to get off my lazy keister and do the work to make them complete. I've been a member of Retrobike for some time, and I'll be done my first build in about 4 weeks.

 

[utahdog2003]

SDG
Altek
Deore DX NOS
Mavic 217 Sunset NOS

buy it all

fit it to everything I ride

repeat







edit...

OK OK...so the 2008 EWR has Sram X0 on it...but one day, X0 will be the DX of the cycling world...highly regarded but yet somehow always considered second fiddle...

for everything else....DX

 

[kirbdug]

I don't know what I am?

I bought a kona and turned it around in six weeks.

I now have an e stay bike, of which could be classed as a wreck and can't be bothered with at the mo. This will be a long term ss project.

I look at the for sale section and see some quality machines at a good price, but then think do I need another bike?

I suppose that's bike building for you

 

[messiah]

Build with what I have and can find cheap.
Ride and see how it goes.
Tinker = Change components if unhappy, or I break something, or I find something better and/or more interesting/suitable.
Ride some more.
Tinker.
Ride some more.
Tinker.
Ride some more.
Tinker.
Ride some more.
Tinker.
Ride some more.
Tinker.

 

[REKIBorter]

Get inspiration for a build, this may be a bike, frame or individual component - buy loads of bits for it - decide they are wrong - buy a load more bits - fit it all together - buy more bits as they are still not right - ride it - sell all the extra bits I do not need anymore. Repeat.

 

[mazdaman1980]

Sympathetic but functional with a little flair.

 

[barry2017]

All of the above, but I have to say I don't care as much as most people here about how correct something is. If it works well, it generally looks quite good.

 

[dbmtb]

2 rules:
Never so fancy that I won't dare use the bike.
Never 2 bikes that are so alike that it's pointless - all my bikes are made for a particular kind of ride.

Find a frame at the right (low) price on the "always wanted one of them" list...

Concept gets decided when I find the frame(After 15 years in the trade, I have a lot of parts/contacts but there's always something you don't have)

Frame arrives - concept rethought if necessary

Preliminary build with what's lying around in case the frame sucks

Swap parts around according to build list, as and when I find them at the right (low) price. (When possible "one part in, parts of similar value out" - this way it's a cheap hobby)

Eventually - one complete bike.
Parkpre took 3 1/2 months
Alan has taken 2 years and is still not finished (lost decals, new rear wheel to build when I find the right rim)
Gios has taken 4 years (waiting for the right rims and tubulars)
Track bike took a week as it's the exception to the rule - a collection of parts waiting for a frame.....

 

[lou74]

hmmmmm. i've been building my 91 gsxr 7/11 for 5 years now as and when time & money have allowed..... end still not in sight!!!
that said, the funk has now got a new chain & a short cage 735xt rear mech on it so is getting used now.
i'll take building a push bike over a motor bike any day..... less parts!