Originally Posted by
Maelochs
OP's best bet is to buy used bikes selectively. There are always going to be people who bought $3000 bikes and are selling them three years later for $1000 because they only rode three times. Buy a couple of those for frames and parts, take what you need and assemble the rest and throw it back on CL, and then buy whatever else you need, and there you go .....
Agree. I do buy new time to time but what you write is spot on.
In the case of the Trek Emonda, off ebay I scored a virtually new Ultegra equipped SL6 carbon Emonda for a friend at a price of a new Al Emonda with lower groupset...actually less than.