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Old 04-24-07 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by sherpaPeak
BUILD IT.

- building your own bike is amazingly rewarding. its almost impossible to put a dollar value to that. also, if you are careful and calculative, building a bike could be much cheaper. even with the shipping cost and everything. Also, bike industry is pretty standardized these days so its relatively easy to figureout what sizes and specs you need. Also, you have this forum as your first hand resource to get some good and not so good ideas.
You need to do your math better (thanks for actually breaking out the cost by the way). I find the price to be $725 of which $95 is shipping. That 13% of the total price! Original price of the H5 was around $700 from what I can find. From the Haro website, the spec on the stock bike is still pretty good at that price - quite comparable to your bike.
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