Actually, begin here
07 02 09 - 12:55
A bicycle necessarily starts with a frame, and where better to start than a Look 585 Ultra, three pounds of prime carbon fibre goodness from the middle of France*. Following the example, and indeed entreaty, of the Great Leader, I'm spending money I don't have on things I don't need. If my cycling life to date tells you anything, it's that the last thing I need is a high end road race bike, so that's exactly what I'm building. I may attempt to justify it later by putting on some clip-on tri-bars and using it for 50 mile TTs, but for now it's just a fun toy. Thanks to the depression/recession/deflationary spiral which ten years of gross fiscal incompetence has brought us, retailers are desperate to shift stock at almost any price, which brought the hitherto exclusive Look within reach at a 40% discount to the original 2007 price.
*yes, I know they've farmed out actual production to the colonies, but that won't let me make 'Nevers-sur-Dimanche' comments about my Sunday bike
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