I’ve always loved steel and I always will.  I think this stems from my early days of biking. 20 years ago when I first started biking (yoiks!) I broke the dropout on my Fuji Tahoe. I went to Performance bike shop in Cartimar (no relation to the mail order shop it stole its name from) to get myself a new frame. I got myself a white bike with a smoke finish made out of “high-tension” which was all I could afford.  Gorgeous smoke finish- did they really put a lit cigarette beside the bike when they added the topcaot it?   I never really found out but the results were awesome.  Sadly that bike was MASSIVE.  I had a sneaking suspicion that high-tension was a code word for “pipes stolen from the plumber”. 

The dream back then was to get a Chromoly frame in a bright neon color. Preferably the brighter the better.  I dreamed of one of those elevated chainstay chromoly bikes in Tryon with the cantilever brake booster going for (gasp) 5,000PHP.  One dream even better than that was to get a custom frame from Nonet near aurora who used to do the frames for the Tour of Luzon racers. Years later that same bike frame is in an unused doghouse right outside my bedroom window I’ve had many bikes since then but the dream for Steel continues. 

Now that My Next Bike brings in Siren, maybe its time to get that custom job steel job I’ve always dreamed about. Custom colors? Sure.  Custom measurements? No problem Brendan himself can walk you through the requirements. Oh dear is this the dream come true?  Dang I’m excited.  


To be continued.