HaakonJohansen wrote:Your builds are truly amazing! Still I've got two questions.
1. Why don't you get some cheap parts (for at least one of the builds) to use while you're waiting for the missing parts to arrive? Seems to be a waaay to much waiting without being able to ride even one of them:S You must be the most patient person alive!
2. Am I correct to assume that you'll avoid all warranties on the frames and the fork when stripping them like that? If that's the case, doesn't this concern you? I mean, they're not exactly cheap frames, and with all this waiting time, you could probably almost get a GrigioCarbonio or a UNNO frame by the time you're finished (not really sure when they'll be ready of course, so I might be way off here).
Like I said though; your builds looks awesome and I guess they'll ride really great when they're finished!
Thank you!
Now, to answer your questions, you're right that by now I could quite easily get at least one of them up and running but there are basically three reasons to why I haven't yet.
- The optimist in me who keeps going "Just another couple of weeks and then they'll be done"
- Just like andrezucs says, luckily I do have a third bike. Nothing to race on but it's good enough for my training. So even if I'm getting a bit stressed since race season has started, I can get most of my training in and my only real goal for the season is the biggest Marathon race (CykelVasan) in Sweden but that's in August so no worries there yet.
- The perfectionist/nerd/builder in me who after all this time thinking, planning and picturing the bikes wants them truly finished. To take the pics, to get the first ride on them just as they're supposed to be and most importantly I guess - to finally get that feeling when tightening the last screw get to think that "Wow, they're finished and they turned out awesome" haha.
But honestly it's a bit of a shame, because it has taken a bit too long now and that has taken some of the fun of out of this. Even my patience has it's limits.
As for the stripping of everything, yes it does void the warranty. But I'm willing to take a gamble on it, partly because I've very rarely broken something ever and if I do manage to break something hopefully it can be repaired. I live close to Mattias Hellöre of Experimental Prototype, who among many things is an expert at repairing carbon frames and parts, so unless I make something completely explode I should be able to let him work his magic.
I would love to get a UNNO, and even though the Grigio Carbonio is crazy light I don't like how it looks. But actually I ordered the frames in August last year already, and at that time the UNNO felt far away and I hadn't even heard of Grigio Carbonio so.
andreszucs wrote:If you look at his Instagram, it looks like he is into cycling for quite a while and I'm sure he's got many other bikes to ride while he spend his garage time doing what he likes.
I would probably be doing the exact same thing with my money with all these expensive parts if I wasn't married to a detective wife and two kids under 5.
I've heard about those detective wives... Seems impossible to sneak a single expensive bike part home without them noticing.
So I figured I had to do these builds now that I had the chance, who knows if it'll be possible another year.