hello,

Well, my cousin dumped me a frame from his weeks old "Giant Boulder" (he loves to take things apart. I guess he messed up this time and want nothing to do with bikes?).. .... I'm not really sure what to do with this piece of steel. It's actually in pretty good condition, looking from the paint. I know the entire bike is $330 brand new according to Giant's website, but I'd love to use this opportunity/excuse to build a bike myself based on this frame. Is this frame at least durable enough so that I can drop 6? 7 hundred bucks on other parts and make it a "working" mountain bike?
(in other word if I related everything to cars, I don't want to build a car from a poorly made 3 cylinder Geely engine. But, I'm not counting it to be a BMW engine either, a Honda Civic's will do just fine)

I have never done anything to a bike before, so this can be really fun and I just reallly want to at least give it a try.(how hard can it be?) I just don't want end up spending all the effort building something around a "walmart-ish" bike frame. I'm not looking to just buy a bike either, the whole point of this is to build a bike.

Thanks in advance