I'm in the process of building a bike from frame up but I jsut don't want to spend silly money. The cheapest I've come up with to build the 5.5 is 1200 excluding the frame.
Anyone managed an uber cheap build?
my singlespeed has cost me £350, but I did end up with a spare whyte 19 frame in that.
I think if you exclude the frame, my Trance cost me under £500. If you include it, under £800 and thats with a decent build kit. Depends if you want bling or brand new.
recently built my son a Kona full-sus bike for less than £250.
I had to buy frame and wheels and a few bits and bobs but a lot of stuff came out of my 'spares' pile so I'm not sure if that counts.
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bought a cannondale f500 for £250 with some spare conti supersonic race king's!
So far it's cost a new fork gaiter. And a full strip and rebuild (just to be sure everything was A1) revealed the drivetrain to be nearly new, all new brake pads, etc etc etc
The previous owner must have made a loss just ont he tires and new bits let allone the bike itself!
built 2 hack bikes for my friends:
rockhopper- £60
malt 1- £75
moral of the story- keep yer spares!
£200.
Did get the donor F&F, BB, brakes and headset free, though.
Rest built out of second hand and donated stuff.
wwaswas. did i sell you that frame?
looking good!!
depends if you count the 'cost' of spare parts you already have laying around....
If I assume all spares I have are paid for already and have no cost then the cheapest I've built a bike for was £22.50, £20 on an old alu coyote hardtail frame, + £2.50 I had to spend on a new brake cable.
If you start counting cost of 'spares' then I managed a complete hardtail with front sus and LX/XT drivetrain from scratch for about £200 using ebay and 2nd hand bits from friends.
I have an on-one inbred, new frame (but bought 2nd hand), everything else bar the chain was 2nd hand. I budgeted on £250, and ended up going a little over £300
I did have a few bits knocking about though, such as seatpost, saddle, goodridge cable for the front ... rotors ... etc
I built up my current winter bike using mostly parts from here.
07 Stumpjumper Com M4 frame (virtually new) £150
Reba SL forks (a month old) £150
Thomson post £30
Crossmax SL wheels off my Flux £x
Chainrings, cassette, chain £60
Shifters cranks brakes salvage off another bike.
All in well under £500.
First hardtail in nearly 20 years. Loving it.
1111 - yes, he's very pleased with it 🙂
That was his first ride which was a local 'cross race @ Stanmer - was all a bit competitive for him but he's been very happy riding the Downs around Brighton with me.
My OH F500 cost around £200. Girl was going back to US after uni and didn't want to take the bike. Took my offer of £130 (it was an older model but totally mint apart from a dent in the main tube when someone tried to nick it when she was in church, decent gear, deore/xt, 27 speed), got a Fatty Ultra for £40 off ebay (sold the standard Headshok P-bone for £10), XT front disc brake from here for £30 and a XT V brake for rear for £15 off CRC. All in came at around £200 but I did put a front disc wheel and a longer seatpost from my parts bin. She loves it as it's her first bike that is right size for her and has a ladies saddle. If she's happy, I'm happy.
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I like the Kona very nice bike considering the budget.
wwaswas. glad he is enjoying the bike.
TBH when you said it was for your son i thought you was going to build the Hard tail up for him.
Well, I thought 'he's worth full suspension'.
And I've already got 5 bikes and couldn't really justify another...
Even buying new you can oviously go way lower than 1200.
I costed an Inbred build with deore groupset and Recon air forks. I think the full build cost was about £700 including decent cables and tyres.
The basis of this was the deore group set and wheels from Merlin for 300. But I think it included some on one stuff, their stems etc. are very cheap
After reading this I'm tempted to invest in a decent fork and wheels and trawl the classifieds for the rest.
If we're excluding bits you already have I built my first Soul up for £186.59.
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