Originally Posted by
subzerobiker
Same question for a MTB fork. Will pretty much all forks fit in pretty much all frames? or does the O.D. (outside diameter) of a fork need to be matched to the I.D. (inside diameter) of that hole in the frame?
Given that I would recommend buying a bike. There are many other, more complicated, aspects to building the bike. There are some very expensive tools that make the job easier and more reliable as well as many hand tools that you need to complete the process. Your eagerness is fantastic and building a computer as apposed to building a bike are two very different things. I have built my computers since the 90's and understand that specc'ing something is very important. However, sometimes a product will carry 80% of the spec you want and with a little additional outlay you can complete it with exactly what you want.
Its one thing plugging RAM into a motherboard and a very different thing fine tuning a bike.