Re: Dave K. do you build with Stainless Steel Lugs?: Bikefanclub.com

I told Dave what I wanted the bike to "feel" like, the ride characteristics, etc. I like to ride longer rides, centuries, all days or multiple day long rides. I wanted the bike to handle a little slower than a race bike, like I told Dave: "I want to be able to unwrap my Fig Newtons with both hands while riding". After our many pre-build conversations, he used Reynolds 725, which turned out to be spot-on for what I wanted. The bike was so dialed in, specification-wise, that there was very little fiddling to do after it was built. Just some very fine tuning.

The big lessons that I have learned is to have intensive dialog with both your fitter and builder. Be very honest about what you want and expect from a bike (if you're not a racer don't have your bike built like one, it won't be right for you) And don't tell your builder how to build your bike unless you know more than he does. Open and honest dialogs with your fitter and builder will reveal to them what would be best. Let them do their jobs, that's what you are paying them for.

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