I've got a real mish mash on my new project bike. I decided to go Campy 10 speed and looked for bargains. The result is Centaur crankset, brakes and front DR, Record BB and chain, Chorus carbon shifters and rear DR, Veloce cassette. How's that for a mish mash? The decisions were purely economic. They had nothing to do with performance since all the Campy components perform very well indeed and I can't really tell them apart in actual use. All these components cost less than $600 combined and all are new except for the Record BB which has about 200 miles on it - I tend to put high value on bottom brackets. Add a free lightweight aluminum racing frameset with carbon fork that I had laying around, $55 worth of Italian alloy handlebar and stem, a $21 Italian alloy seat post, $65 Italian saddle and you have a very affordable, high performance almost Italian road bike. I have bar tape, bottle cages and pedals in my parts box so I'm not spending anything additional for them at the moment. Campy on a Tiagra budget. This will be my "beater bike" and I expect it to weigh in at well less than 19 lbs. when completed. I think it will be a great beater. The frame will be finished at the auto body shop tomorrow. I'm getting a golden yellow paint job that fades to black at the head tube. I'm looking forward to the project.