eh, It depends on your definition of expensive. im a 16 year old with no job, so for me it is some task for me to get parts. I buy the big parts them peice by peice, right now I have a psychonnecta frame, primo hulahoop wheelset, and a kgb space fork. Ive got a ways to go before its complete but im about to buy, the headset a brickhouse stem the the mountain top fabrication (contortion) bars. along with the barends n' grips etc. anyway once im done it will have been $1100 and more than ive ever spent on one thing. and to some people , $1100 is a cheap bike.