Originally Posted by GromCake

ehh, there's way worse threads than this started every day don't feel too awful. on my beater/daily ride i tend to go with the cheaper stuff from trusted brands, sugino rd2 cranks are affordable and solid and just go with the matching sugino bb, pretty much always formula hubs if you want good hubs that aren't going to cost you too much, nice affordable izumi or kmc chain, dimension and kalloy are fine brands for nothing special but also not garbage seatposts, bars, and stems, charge makes some of the best saddles for the money, i always allocate a good chunk of the budget for wheels, velomine has a huge selection of really affordable rock solid wheel builds like i don't understand how their wheels are so cheap i've looked into cost of building a wheelset and just got the same build at velomine for cheaper than i could've built it on my own, soma or eai cogs, cheap set of mks pedals, most trusted tire brands have great budget options. but yeah idk hope that helps i guess