Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
From another thread where the rider had an appropriately large budget, they chose an off the shelf frame instead of custom. I don't understand why one forgoes a bike that can be built specifically for their body measurements and component likes for a bike that is not built to their body and comes pre-equipped.
Much more bike for the buck.
Component arrangement only matters much if you don't a suitable production bike with close to what you want. And swapping things out from a complete bike can be cheaper than buying piecemeal.
If your proportions aren't very far from the norm, a custom builder making a bike "specifically for your body measurements" is hardly guaranteed to land any closer to what you need than a production bike that fits well.
And, oftentimes people shelling out lots of money on a road bike have demands like "carbon" or "aero frame," for which the custom pickings are slim.
There are definitely situations that call for custom, but it's more "
why go custom?" than "why
not go custom?"