I’ve given up or at least put aside my bicycle rebuilding project for now. I want to get back on the road sooner than later but I also don’t want to spend $800 on a new bike that gets stolen two weeks later or is shinny plastic chrome plated garbage that falls apart by the end of the summer from just ordinary use.

I did the buy a new brand name Gary Fisher bicycle “it will be great thing fit so comfortable has a great suspension” 20 years ago from Downtube and it turned out to be a complete lemon and a disaster. I don’t want to do that again. They insisted the new bicycles aren’t such crap but I don’t believe them.