The brief

Ross had two specific guidelines for this custom build:

1. It had to be light.
2. It had to be a singlespeed.
3. It needed to offer a high level of performance.
4. It needed to have hydraulic disc brakes.
5. Even with all of these prerequisites, it still needed to hit a particular budget.

He was also open to the concept of mixed components, a bitzer, if you will.

Oh, and could we also give it a particular aesthetic?

You bet we could!

The bike

This was a perfect opportunity to base a build around an All-City Super Professional, a frameset we'd had our eye on for a while. Look at that purple sparkle finish! How could anyone resist?

Now, to be perfectly honest, we knew that most of the budget would be in the frame: it's a quality frameset with a carbon Whisky fork to boot, so that meant we had to watch our pennies for the rest of the build.

We had already built Ross a set of DT Swiss wheels for another bike, so transferred those over to this one. (Does that count as money saved? Sure, why not.)

For the rest of the build, we went through our secret magic box of second-hand bits and pieces to create a simple but high-quality build kit. We even found an old Selle Italia Flite, which just happened to be one of Ross's favourite saddles! Talk about luck of the draw.

With the purple frame specced, Tektro disc brakes for stopping power, and some fun silver/black touches to boot, this Super Professional was ready to go, and Ross couldn't have been happier.

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