Old barn find I breathed new life in because gravel bikes are too expensive so fuck it I'll make my own.
Just waiting for the last parts since i lost some plastic thingamabobs I need for the STIs.
Sometimes I think I should keep my bike shop like surgically clean so I don't lose the small, crucially important plastic bits in the mess of parts and old boxes but alas, if your personal shop doesn't look like you could outfit a frame with parts you find on the ground, is it even a shop?
It never occured to me that we can talk about bikes here without bougie assholes being like "If you don't spend $10,000, that's not a bike"
One time I asked a bike forum for suggestions for some inexpensive disc brakes for my Shimano frame. Nothing but dunks. Its all I could afford at the time, and that's still true. It's a decent 29er for what I paid, and it has spots to attach after market stuff. I even found a free $150 salsa rim sitting by a garbage can in a rich neighborhood, so I put it on. I'm not above a frankenbike, and nobody should talk down to anyone just because they can't afford a $1,000 Specialized.