Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
That's a great deal, but you're comparing apples to oranges. I have never been interested in carbon frame bikes. It's my bias. If you're into carbon, that's cool, but I am STRICTLY a metal guy. My BD.com bike is titanium. If you can find a titanium frame road bike with full ultegra, good wheel sets, and other top end componentry for less than 2 Gs, then that's great. I shopped around for months and was not able to find any titanium ultegra bikes for anywhere close to 2 Gs.
You didn't try very hard.
Very simply, the Performance Titanium frame frequently goes on sale in the $700 range. It's well known that that's a Lynskey frame - even comes in a Lynskey box. Another $750 for a 6700 groupset from Ribble. That leaves you $500 +$70 in team dollars from Performance for misc parts and a set of wheels. Easily at the same price point or less, and you certainly can't claim your third world titanium frame is a Lynskey.
BD is good only for people that have a CC in hand and need instant gratification for shopping and/or have no clue how to truly build a bike. There's nothing they sell that can't be done at a cheaper price point.