he also wanted darimo bars but they are riddiculosly expensive and too much for the saving...
and hard carbon saddle LOL - he said its not made for 70+miles routes haha
duraace cassette for them few grams of saving...
I think it weights 6.6kilo which is really good for SL7
hes waiting for stock of carbon rotors to be availible as well...
Crazy he's spent so much aftermarket to only get it to 6.6kg! Should have bought himself an Aethos!
I'm probably going to have a nice windfall in a year or so. Enough that we can get a bigger house and hopefully some spare change to buy a bike.
What I'm debating, as it's pie in the sky stuff at this point, how difficult is it to build a bike up? Part of me thinks just buy an off the shelf bike with everything ready to go but the other part of me thinks well I have a perfectly fine set of Zipp 404 wheels that if I bought a complete bike, they'd be redundant.
I just don't know if I have the technical ability to actually build a bike up from parts. I certainly don't have the tools and space at the moment that's for sure!
You have the ability, but would question really if it is 'worth it'. Short answer unless you have some specific reason for building it up and can save £1000 from owing some components already, then you won't save anything. The tools alone will be several hundred quid. The time and 'hassle' spent learning and doing are only a cost saving if you are prepared to invest them and 'want to' (or already know).
In short, you don't save money by building, it will generally cost more than off the shelf if you factor in the time, even if you have all the tools.
Your Zipp 404 are a quality upgrade to most things you'll be looking at - but also consider with all the 'house stuff' then a few thousand quid is 'nothing'. Any kind of moving/building/house stuffs swallows money. Spending several thousand on your bike will have little impact to it. But if you do all the house stuff first you'll find it hard to find the money for a bike after...!
A lot of bikes off the shelf, don't have great wheels. So, it could be a perfect match.
This.
I mean even using myself as an example - looking at SL7 Tarmac's going for the 'Expert' has prices around £4-5 rather than the 'Pro' at £6500+. Only real differences are wheels and carbon bars (yes not exactly as one is SRAM and the other Di2).
Bike fit this weekend. LBS has 52 and 54cm SL7's in stock (they're a chain) and will get whichever I want in to test ride. Fairly sure they'll want to sell me the one they have as won't comment on the colour as I asked for the specific one which isn't in stock on Specilized
Well the SL8 which I like, i think it's the one Andy recently acquired, is bang on £8000 whereas, assuming I priced it up correctly the parts come to £5400 (I don't think I actually need a £240 BB lol) obviously excluding the cost of my 404fcs. Plus the vanity side of me, which is the most important, prefers the look of the Zipp wheels compared to the fitted Roval ones.
Really? Not considering S-Works...
Frameset £3500
Groupset £1400
4iiii dual sided £600
Saddle £150
Bars £350
So easily £6000 before you consider the Roval Rapide CLII £1400 then things like BB, Tyres, tape...
Yes there's some savings if you're prepared to hunt around deals, have all the tools and spend time looking at alternative parts, but for the 'same bike' then getting it all built and complete for £6500 could be tough, probably cost you at least £7000 if you used someone else to build it and sourced all parts yourself and had a good relationship with said bike shop & builder!
185HRM on top lol
