For a story: have you ever built up a bike from the frame? Can be new purchase or used. Want to hear your experiences:

-Why vs. buying a stock bike?
-What challenges did you run into?
-Did you work w/ a shop, or go solo?

Open reply or, as the kids say, it goes down in my DMs.

Thanks for all the great responses. You’ll get personal thank-you’s at my Pulitzer ceremony.
But top points go to @captain7bag for his seven-hour thread on his quest to build a Niner rig for the 24 Hours of the Old Pueblo. If you’re not following Cap? You miss a good show.