With his budget,yes.Building from scratch is great, but unless one is willing to spend some money it is going to take forever to get semi decent parts or the bike is going to end up a clunker with ****ty parts for the same money as a BD bike.A wheelset is going to eat up most of the budget.Finding a used one with trackhubs is not that easy and a super cheap one is usually beat to hell.Anybody looking to build on a budget should go the conversion route.