Originally Posted by
chiefsilverback
Slight tangent as it's out of budget, but Salsa Cutthroat frameset is $2500, built Cutthroat Apex 1 is $2900. Does the built bike use the same frame, $400 for everything else you need to build a bike seems crazy cheap!?!?
That’s what I was driving at in post #7: it probably makes sense for you to be looking at complete bike. Needing frameset, wheels, brakes, brifters and rotors, it’s going to cost you more to piecemeal than buy complete.