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So the plan was to buy a Bob Jackson frame and have it built up by my local bike shop with parts purchased from them. As the weeks have gone on I’ve started to accumulate parts from elsewhere (it gets addictive this malarkey) and if I carry on the way I’m going there’s not going to be much left to get from the shop and the guy who said he’d build it will quite rightly tell me to piss of when I turn up with a box of bits.
After reading countless posts I’m starting to think that I should be building this myself. If you’ve read any of my previous questions (and I thank you for your replies) I’m new to all this and usually just ride the things and when they go wrong take them to the shop for fixing: I’m not stupid or lazy, it’s just that I like to know that it’s being looked after, most probably far better than I can ever do myself.
My question this time is….. once I’ve got all my bits together would I be stupid to attempt to build this myself seeing that the most I have done with my commuter is re-grease the rear bearings when they started to sound gritty? I know I’ll have to buy some tools, read some guides and take my time but my concern is more that I’ll screw up some of the good bits that’s going on to this bike and either make a proper bollock of it or kill myself at the first junction when it all collapses.