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Why are we so skeptical about the £1700 figure? I'm always shocked by BLB prices.
Yes it sounds stupid, but if the frame was £579 and the wheels £320, that's £900. Leaves £800.
Having had a look at the bits, made some guesstimates, you could easily spend:
£50 on Miche Supertype
£90 on yellow SLR
£30 gold izumi chain
£35 Dirty Harry's x 2
£60 Durano x 2
£25 BLB alloy pedals
£40 XE quill
£40 bars
£200 (!!111!!!1) Campag Record skeleton brakes (cheapest pair I can find online is £150!)
£240 Campagnolo Record Pista chainset (£215 on Wiggle)
= £770. I didn't even engineer the prices to be that close. I've not even added hipster tax.
So £770 + 15% hipster tax = £885
£885 + £579 + £320 = £1784.
Still think it didn't cost £1700?
Fact is if you throw money at a build it sticks. There's nothing wrong with the quality of the parts, but jeez it's feckin' ugly. A feckin' ugly conversion too.