Yesterday I ordered a Sabbath Aspire from Spa Cycles, reviews of both of which are enough to give one pause (the "owner" replies in Google reviews for Spa appear to have either been generated by short-circuiting AI, or vandalised). But that model appealed for various reasons,* not least price, and they own Sabbath. No more custom builds for me.
The gentleman who took my order has actually been quite good, though I'm well aware you can't truly judge until things go wrong. In fact I'm strangely comforted that reviews aren't all positive, as in my experience, such can give you false confidence.
As to the frame itself, I'm going to miss horizontal dropouts. Making it singlespeed will almost certainly be a bodge. I've been there before
fine detail:and am prepared to go back.
That's how much I dislike paint on a bike.
I'm not particularly fond of 'Aspire' as a model name. At least graphically, it's reasonably subtle.
As to how it rides, well, I can only keep my fingers crossed. Actual review to follow, snow & ice & postal strikes permitting.
Local conditions* Including the way it looks, which is preferable to the Planet X Spitfire I owned for a few minutes -
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