Bikes

Inventive title, no?

So I wanted to talk about my future bike projects for a little bit.

Right now I have a 2004 or 2005 Santa Cruz Blur 4X built up with X.0, XT, XTR, , Chris King, and Rock Shox components. It's a fucking fun bike, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I wish I had a little bit more travel. I'm considering getting either a 2009/10 Santa Cruz Bullit frame with a DHX Air 5.0 and 36 Float RC2, or a 2010 Specialized Enduro SL frame. Either way I'll be mostly just swapping my parts over from the Blur, so the end result should be pretty light. The Blur weighs about 28 lbs right now (thanks to the stupid Pike), so I project that the Bullit would weigh about 30 lbs (with the 36 Float RC2), and the Enduro would weigh about 28-29 lbs (maybe less with a 2010 Rock Shox Revelation Team Dual Air).

For the road bike category I have a 2003 Specialized S-Works E5 road bike frame, painted in that sweet Mario Cipollini zebra-striped team paintjob. I had a smattering of Dura Ace and Ultegra 9-speed components on it as well as some Ksyrium SL wheels, but I loaned all of the parts to a young co-worker of mine so that he could have a nice road bike for once. Aren't I nice? Anyway, the main line is that I have a really nice frame sitting in my house, looking forlorn. It makes me feel guilty every time I come into my house, it's just sitting there, staring at me. So I was thinking about getting this and putting all the parts (except for the wheels) on my S-Works frame. Or I could just buy a full SRAM Rival group from QBP and a pair of DT Swiss RR1450 Mon Chasseral wheels and build it up. I'm sort of on the fence with this. In one hand, I didn't ride the S-Works when I had it built up, it just sat around and gathered dust (but it looked pretty); on the other hand, the shop at which I work sells mostly road bikes, so it would be nice to be able to say "Yes, I have one of these and it is nice..." to customers in order to let them know that I'm not just some sheep in wolf's clothing.

Ah decisions decisions.