not a support questionBackstory: all this year I've been working on this amount of job security: 'Good work Westley, sleep well; I'll probably kill you in morning' until last week when the announcement was made that it's going to be April at the earliest before they start thinking about redunding any of us. Being not quite completely stupid, I've been jealously guarding a layer of financial fat to tide me over while I find something else to fit around my sproglet-wrangling job.
Being stupid, I now want that money to transmute into a shoal of piranha and strip the flesh from the fuzzily defined envelope that is the sum of all my imagined n-plus-ones, until nothing is left but the pure clean bones of velocipedal beauty.
Variables:
1)In the light of my Dread Pirate Roberts employment situation, earlier this year I abandoned my plans to gear up my singlespeed wee blue floofy, and insteaed went for the cheapo get-a-geared-bike method of making my former hipstermobile, black fruity, into an 8-speed. Shortly after this I realised that the 1988 vintage brakes on this device really didn't cut it now that I couldn't fixie-slow, so I upgraded the front to a modern dual-pivot. Therefore I have most of the moving parts for a budget roadie - aside from handlebars and levers, there isn't much on black fruity's frame that isn't new and of okay quality.
i)Black fruity is too small. Can't repress it any more; coming out party kicks off today: I am large.
b)I intend to take this device to the Highlands, so brakes of godly power are a major plus. Mr and Mrs Disc, I'm looking at you.
Fourth) I would like to build up a bike from scratch, but from the look of things, unless you already have a smattering of components already, the cheapest way to buy a bike's worth of kit is to buy a bike. If I just flat-out buy a good bike, then I've got one good bike's worth of kit. I have sod all of a disc-brake bike's kit.
pi) I really want my sister to start cycling, and from the look of her job situation, she'd be best going Brompton for the multimode Laaahndahn factor, and since I want/need such a device(oooh, I hate you, Greenroofer) I'll likely go halfers on it.
e) I want to get some audax and/or touring in, and with the trailer I invested in I require a device of long mile comfort and chunksome brakes.
e) I want to unleash oiled thunder from my thighs on flats and curves. I want to fall hawklike from the top of hills I've grated lung to conquer. I want something fast.
g)I think Genesis bikes are beautiful devices. I literally couldn't gush about them more if I was paid, since I resent the notion of pimping my wordgasms.
I think this gives me:
Equilibrium frame; 8-speed cheapo kit; new bars/shifters; buy-in on Brom.
Equilibrium.
Croix de Fer.
Volant.
Help. Unless you're crowriver, in which case you're going to tell me to save the money for next year's knifeedge, but *fingers in ears* Llalalalalalallalala
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