Wanted: Newbie - Buy or build?

Cool. Thanks guys.

After sleeping on it and reading some of the suggestions from you good folk, I think I will build a bike.

I guess I was half made up, just wanted some opinions from those who've been there, done that...

Scrounging, saving, and searching for the parts is part of the fun, I reckon.

Re: using a mtb frame - aren't they so much heavier? I like to look of those old steel road bike
frames...

cheers

Rudy

working with an MTB or hybrid is a bad idea.

We all love old steel road bike frames,

but they are getting harder to find.

What once was free or a fiver, old raleighs, peugots, dawes etc

is now pushing £100

Its still possible to find a nice frame to work with for free or a few quid, you just have to look hard.

And although I dont like the look of mtb fixies myself, theres alot of decent hybrids out there which can be had for very little.