Originally Posted by
Max C.
Haha I think everyone needs to take a chill pill. Does the bike run? If yes then there's not really much to say one way or the other. Even if Boro spends $500 on his bike to bring the total for the bike to around $700, he'd have more fun building the bike up and the only difference between it and an off the shelf $700 bike would be the frame (or not if he swapped that out as well). In the end the money is still the same and he'd still have a nice bike, it's just a different path to get there.
From a practical economic standpoint a major difference is that when Boro wants to fund a higher end bike, he'd be able to take the $700 road bike and sell it for $350 to $500 in a couple of years where he'd be lucky to get over $100 for the Denali no matter what he does to it.