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When it comes to bicycles, custom is well defined...unless you are an e-diot. I laugh constantly at
those who throw a few aftermarket parts or cheesy upgrades on a cookie cutter frame and call it a
"custom" (mtbretards is a great place to view this spectacle). What a joke. It may be "customized",
but it is not "custom". Custom bikes start at the frame, plain and simple. If it's off the rack, or
part of an assembly line, it's not custom. Carl Strong will make you a custom frame, as will Chris
Cocalis, Chet Peach or one of many good framebuilders that are out there. The cookie cutter
companies may make a custom bike for one of their racers or a friend, but what goes to regular joe
is not a custom, even if regular joe does put XTR and all of the latest doodad electronic BS on it.
JD guffaw
those who throw a few aftermarket parts or cheesy upgrades on a cookie cutter frame and call it a
"custom" (mtbretards is a great place to view this spectacle). What a joke. It may be "customized",
but it is not "custom". Custom bikes start at the frame, plain and simple. If it's off the rack, or
part of an assembly line, it's not custom. Carl Strong will make you a custom frame, as will Chris
Cocalis, Chet Peach or one of many good framebuilders that are out there. The cookie cutter
companies may make a custom bike for one of their racers or a friend, but what goes to regular joe
is not a custom, even if regular joe does put XTR and all of the latest doodad electronic BS on it.
JD guffaw