i'm not even close to being rich, i'm just saying...
all of my builds are done with a used, quality american bike, and i just search for great deals on everything. if i had to buy everything new, i'd be paying thousands, for a bike i can build up for much less.
a new Brooks seat for example can cost as much as $200, but a great used one from ebay that someone put in the wrong category or spelled their ad wrong, can be found for under 10 bucks. i paid $1.25 for one (not including shipping.)
my tires and tubes are right about 70 bucks altogether, and that's still pretty cheap, for the quality of tires they are (Kenda Kiniptions.) certain things i won't skimp on, quality tires and tubes being two (or 4, actually) of them.
those things seperate me from the pavement.