Originally Posted by rjfc2

Hello,
this is my first post but have been browsing for a while . Ive been working as a courier for 7 months, and I think my fitness has improved enough to merit investing in a road bike with gears. I want to assemble it myself, hopefully to save some cash, and so I can fix it when things go wrong. I have a budget of just over £400 (800$ ish).

I was thinking of buying this frameset:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/M...?ModelID=26893

and kitting it out with the campagnolo xenon groupset, and buying the rest of the stuff on ebay. Does anyone have any experiance with brand-x frames? Is there any reason apart from weight, to upgrade the groupset.

cheers, rob