There is a lot of egg-on-face cleaning to be done, since it was a Yeti test bike that I lost. The Starling, well yeah. I am going through a phase of steel-ification (not for the first time), and finding myself wanting my personal bikes to be made by people I know and made out of a material that I feel more comfortable about from a "hey, this water tastes like microplastic" perspective. Subjective, hypocritical, easily refuted logic behind much of this thinking, but I'm feeling my way through it anyhow. So, I bought the frame after reviewing the Twist a while back, and only just now getting to ride it.
Dec. 8, 2023, 8:49 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
There is a lot of egg-on-face cleaning to be done, since it was a Yeti test bike that I lost. The Starling, well yeah. I am going through a phase of steel-ification (not for the first time), and finding myself wanting my personal bikes to be made by people I know and made out of a material that I feel more comfortable about from a "hey, this water tastes like microplastic" perspective. Subjective, hypocritical, easily refuted logic behind much of this thinking, but I'm feeling my way through it anyhow. So, I bought the frame after reviewing the Twist a while back, and only just now getting to ride it.