I’m wanting to build a bike to my own specs, I thought I would be able to get a bit of a discount by buying the frame as second hand, but it’s proving oddly difficult to find any.
I tried Ebay thinking that would be the one, but it’s just loaded with Chinese brand frames.
Do I have to buy a new frame from the manufacturer?
I was looking for frames recently and know exactly what you mean with eBay however you are able to find stuff on there in my experience it is just a case of filtering your search. I had some luck by filtering so I was only shown results by location and specifying my country and also by sorting by geographically nearest to me first and that usually got rid of the majority of the Chinese shit.
I was also going to build a bike up from scratch but after working out costs it was cheaper to buy an already built bike with as much of the spec I wanted and then I will just change out the bits I wanted and can sell on the old stuff as suggested in the other reply.
Good luck with your search, I have a friend who has been on the look out for a small size bike and he is struggling, it isn’t much better at the other end of the spectrum either as I always have to try and find XL.