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Met a guy out riding earlier with his new $17k bike
 

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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Location: PDX

4/26/19 5:32 PM

Met a guy out riding earlier with his new $17k bike

Speedvagen:

It was very like this one I google image searched for. Just more mono chromatic. No blue, but lots of silver, metallic, and shades of silver/greys/blacks. Same pump paint pattern carry over...

His was Di2 Dura-Ace, this one in the pic is cabled D/A.

I will put it this way, if I am him out on my $17k one off custom bike and saw the one in this pic... I would be pissed. It is way more similar than different than the one I saw. Just different colors in the scheme.

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: Maine

4/26/19 5:50 PM

I dunno

My Sachs looks exactly like a thousand others.

I doubt this guy was paying for a custom paint job.

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Sparky
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4/26/19 5:53 PM

Did Richard call yours a one-off?

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
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Location: Nashua, NH

4/26/19 6:32 PM

Custom geometry makes a bike a "one-off". The paint doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it. Heck, a custom Ti bike doesn't even need paint, yet is can certainly be a one-off.

OTOH, a one-off paint job can be applied to an off-the-shelf frame. Does that make the bike a "one-off"?

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: hillbilly heaven

4/26/19 7:44 PM

Wonder how the mud clearance is:(

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dan emery
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4/26/19 8:03 PM

No

I don’t know what a “one-off” is, or who called this bike one. My Sachs is a custom bike, built to my measurements, weight, etc. He built one of them.

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Sparky
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4/26/19 8:11 PM

Check this eBay Sachs frameset out. Quite nice in its own right. If it was 130 spaced and had under instead of over BB cable routing, I might have considered finding out more what constitutes Sachs Tour Geometry...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Excellent-Richard-Sachs-Frame-Fork-Beautiful-Condition-NEW-LOWER-PRICE/323783945407?hash=item4b6306ecbf:g:5lMAAOSwF7dcdsJZ


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