Quote Originally Posted by westtexas View Post
I have been secretly wanting a black and hot pink bike (is this ridiculous or what?!).
SO not ridiculous! I am ALL about pink!!!

Nor is it ridiculous to build your own bike. My bike started as my husband's first used bike, that he slowly changed out all the components on until it became a completely new and upgraded bike (still his at the tim), which morphed into my first bike, which he bought new frame for and put all his parts on it (he got a brand new other bike), which continued to evolve with different parts here and there, until Dh surprised me and came home with "most of my previous" parts put on a new SuperSix frame with SRAM Red components.

He built a mountain bike by ordering all the parts and building it. His friend did the same thing but for even cheaper by being extremely patient. He bid super low on anything he found on Ebay that he needed. He lost tons of bids, but stuck to his guns and won a bid here and there until eventually he got everything he needed to build his bike.

In the old days, Dh would have the LBS do the work on the bike if he had a component replaced, but his friend has taught him everything there is to know about building a bike and maintaining it (and bought him a book for anything he didn't teach him!) so he does all that stuff himself now.

So now it's just a matter of if you figure out the older frame is good enough for you in terms of whatever differences there are in the newer frames. I can't comment on that, but I tend to think you should go for the PINK bike!!!