Originally Posted by french.ace
Beware if you do it yourself. If you are not careful, you will want to replace other, more expensive items soon, and sometimes items that need no replacing at all.
And then the next thing you know it, you are buying a frame and swapping parts for 2 other bikes (the color of the headset on the mountain bike was better for the new bike

) and building wheels and getting it all put together and on the road by the next morning. Not that I would have done that on a Salsa Las Cruces on Tueday. Including driving to Boulder to get the frame.