Originally Posted by
happypills
it's best you disregard this guy's^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ post....
A conversion is the best friend for a tight budget; everybody can save some money these days.
All you need is a rear wheel and some basic tools or just brute force to tear out the old gear stuff on a potential conversion/ ANY BIKE....
Plus, I'm pretty sure those pretty good kilo tt wheelsets are plentiful with so many hipsters swapping 'em out for deep v's and composite wheelz
Dicks, eat them.
Your supposedly better advice is to use "brute force to tear out all the old gear stuff"? What the **** are you talking about?
In my opinion, buying a bike part by part does not save you any money generally despite the fact that you are doing the labor yourself. It is generally cheaper to buy something already put together, be it a bike shop conversion or a bikesdirect new bike. That is not to say you shouldn't build your own, just don't expect to save tons of money.