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The budget is the 1000-2000 EUR max range with shipping and everything, a bit less if I'm lucky.
The thing is, I'm not in UK, and here where I live it is very hard to source good parts so almost everything needs to be imported/online ordered.
Yes, an overkill for a first build, but I want to get it right the first time and it should last me a lifetime.
I would consider an Affinity Metropolitan or an equivalent, but there's no size 59 (I'm 190cm, 34 inseam) and I can't find another similar frameset quite like it.
If I could manage to swap out a frameset for another cheaper one, with a similar geometry like Metropolitan I would be all for it. That would cut the price quite a bit.
Regarding other parts, I'm quite fond of the list so far, would you loose them because they are overkill or?
It is either something like this or a beater. It is hard to balance it out.