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Originally Posted by DRZRM
If I were you, I'd look into used ti. $3,500 won't get you on a Moots Routt (unless you get lucky) but it will get you on almost anything else if it come up in your size used. The indestructibility of ti is fairly spot on, and even on disc frames (which are all the rage) it does not really retain resale all that well. Unless you ride a very strange shaped custom, I would put my money on someone else's ti frame, people here burn through nice bikes.
What size are you looking for?
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Agree with that recommendation as that was my proof of concept approach - found a '95 Merlin frameset from the original owner at a fraction of the cost of new and built it up - two years later I have not found a reason to get rid of it even though I don't know what I'm missing...