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[Niall]

It's easy. If you can do basic things on Car, you can build a bike. Only thing you might need to get a shops to do is face the bottom bracket and IS brake mounts if you have them just to ensure everything sits bang flush. Halfords have the tools to do it and it's only a 30 second job so they might do it for a drink.

Depends. If you wait it out and get some eBay bargains, I reckon you could get a bike for about half the price.
I specd my last one up and the closest bike I could find to it at the time spec wise was a specialized and that was £2800. It cost me just under £1600 to build.
Nice thing is as well you can build the bike to you and your riding style. Even going out and spending 3k on something nice like a iron horse, you will still find that there's bits you want to change like the forks because your a skinny bastard and there too hard or vice versa.
really, like i say i never played with bikes at all. building a bike more cheeper than buying one?