Originally Posted by subzerobiker

Thank you. I am leaning towards building, especially having just come from the LBS just a five minute drive from my house, talked to a Wrench there and he reassured me that he/they can do whatever I need done during the build, e.g. using their equipment and tools for pressing this or that into place, putting on disc brakes, the drive train, whatever I want them to do. So I feel it is more about buying the right parts that work together, I guess I can do that over in the MTB forum perhaps?