Originally Posted by
ricebowl
I have hard time defining shopping around on the internet with a few mouse clicks and/or waiting for the right price as "effort" and come on "untold hours"
I'm shopping for a new bike and find myself saying "but it has _______" a lot. OP doesn't have to say that...
Well I wouldn't have been able to buy a frame last fall, and wait around until now to be able to ride it. That's why the temporary donor bike for the immediate build was an essential part of the plan. Plus I got the extra fun of stripping the donor, then building the new frame with donor parts, then eventually stripping all the donor parts back off and building up the donor again. If I had just waited, I would have only gotten one build!