What's with all this " Custom Build " BLX

tim_wand

Come on! If some bloke in a Shed in Stoke/ Bristol or Leeds hasn't hand brazed it to your specific geometry it aint custom built!

Changing your wheels , Groupset or feckin bar tape don't make your bike " Custom Built ! " Its called upgrading or buying new bits! Please Please stop this " Custom Build " BLX.

Now I m off out in my Bespoke trousers , to drink Craft Ale!!!!!!!!!

pinno

Yeah, geez. Stick a rustic looking label on a bottle of ale and call it 'craft'. I dunno, what's the world coming to?

Stevo_666

I count my last bike as a custom build, mainly because it was mail order from Germany and I had to screw the fecker together.

pinno

Stevo 666 wrote:

I count my last bike as a custom build, mainly because it was mail order from Germany and I had to screw the fecker together.

So that's why it's always going back and forward to the LBS.

Stevo_666

Pinno wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

I count my last bike as a custom build, mainly because it was mail order from Germany and I had to screw the fecker together.

So that's why it's always going back and forward to the LBS.

It gets used hard. A bit like the sheep

veronese68

Ooh, does that make my bikes more valuable? Bought the frames off the shelf and built with off the shelf bits. Scratches are definitely custom though.
Agree, it's a load of horseshit.

napoleond

Yep. Very irritating. I'm sure there was one here where all they'd done was change the tyres and bar tape.

Matthewfalle

Perhaps amend the moniker "custom" to a more justifiable and understandable "chosen"?