Originally Posted by dijos
You can do it, Willy!
I got
formulas/suns=dura ace lockring&soma Cog, and some other crap for less than 2 bills
bought RD's and a BB online-42.50
I had tires, tubes and pedals, headset (14 bucks)
plus bribing someone to help me take off/ put on things ( I had it powdercoated)
still less than 500 bucks, including the bike and powder (~250 between the 2.)
the new track specific shop 66fixed has those brass knuckle frames for 280.00 with seat post he has wheel sets on formula hubs for 130.00 drive trains for ass cheap as 120.00 cock pit for 130.00 tyres and tubes for 115.00 Richy head set guestamation about 50.00 bucks so about 850.00 so who ever said a thousand was correct cause i might not be you should just find a shop and do some pricing and hop on eBay also check out some build kits from iro