Originally Posted by cazzooo
The original post is right on. I just built up from scratch an S-Works E5 brand new frame with brand new good deal components for $1,000.00. Bike people are Yuppie suckers and the companies depend on this fact.
You had to down grade the parts of the fully built E5 to get that price. You can't get the full DA grupo for 1,000 much less adding in the carbon bars, seat post, saddle and of course the SL wheels are $800 alone. I just went down this road with an E5 frame last week, and it was much cheaper to buy the full bike and then change a few parts.