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Originally Posted by Music! (Post 9233070)

Scrod and Dion; thanks, as well.

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Word. I wasn't trying to be a jerk at all, either. I know it sounds crazy, but we just wanted to look out for a fellow rider!

As someone who "built" my first bike (not a conversion, but a build nonetheless), I'm at a point where I wish I just would have bought a Kilo TT and made a few small changes to better suit me. It would have cost me a lot less money and I have a strong feeling I'd be happier overall with my ride (in fact, I'm still going to end up buying one over the next two weeks and parting out some stuff from my current setup).

I honestly wasn't trying to be rude and I agree with whoever said it...a Kilo (or any other BD bike) may not be for you and there's no better way to learn about bikes than to build one up yourself. I think a few of us here were just warning you that it may end up being a rather costly endeavor. And no, there's nothing at all wrong with most Origin8 parts. Just be careful what you're actually getting for your dollars.

Like I suggested, you could always buy a bike from BikesDirect and swap the parts over to your frame.

If you end up deciding to build from scratch, I may be down to contribute some parts. Not for free, but for less than you'd pay retail. It'll save me the hassle of eBay/Craigslist. PM me if interested and I'll give you a list of stuff I've got on hand.

scrod's got it pretty right ^^^

from my experiences, it's hard to do a budget build from scratch. part of the problem when you start building up from scratch is that it's really easy to get into it and super-committed... then the budget parts start to feel like you're skimping, and you start wanting to go all out - which can get really expensive.

And to give a bit more validation to the thought of "just buy a BD bike", business practices dictate that you're getting a better deal buying a complete than building up the exact same complete from scratch. conversely, a $300 complete is going to invariably have better parts than a $300 budget build from scratch (although having the frame to start might make things balance out a bit).

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Originally Posted by Overwhelming (Post 9231835)

I'll lay this out step by step for you:
7. Get the most expensive cranks you can (only go by looks, performance doesn't actually matter.) Make sure that your chain width doesn't match the crank width

wat

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Originally Posted by time bandit (Post 9234097)

also, this is a bad place to ask.

dsh laid out a plan pretty well for you.

there is no way you cant get a decent bike up and running for less than 300 dollars.

People here will say you cant because their e-peen is measured by the useless parts they spent way too much money on.
Most act like inexpensive origin-8 parts will just die the second you get out of the saddle to sprint or something! LOL.

What's a "e-peen"? I'm a boy, do I have one? Should I have one?

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Originally Posted by dsh (Post 9232506)

Bottom bracket - find out what threading your frame has, and get one like that. Everyone sells them. Just get the 103mm shimano since you're too lazy to research chainline.

Great response overall but Shimano does not make 103mm BBs, shortest you can get from them are 107mm.

Sugino makes an affordable BB for less than $30.

++ for the rest of his post. :thumb: