Originally Posted by
DaveSSS
I never buy a complete bike. I buy frames and build them up with the parts I want. My latest Cinelli superstars would cost about $4300 each with force axs disc and Fulcrum racing 3 wheels would cost about $4300, with high level post,bars and saddle.
Exactly what I just did, but finding the components wasn't easy. Complete groupsets are almost impossible to find. Fortunately, I had a Shimano 11 spd chain on hand, because they seem to be on backorder everywhere, along with Ultegra mechanical front derailleurs. I ended up piecing together an Ultegra crankset, Di2 "upgrade" group, and a set of brakes. Really didn't want to go the Di2 route, but now that I have it, I'm glad I did.
One upside (I think) - when this whole pandemic thing is behind us, there will probably be a lot of really high quality, low mileage bikes on the market at good prices.