Could it be?

A Cervelo in my future? I've been playing with the notion of replacing my beloved Orbea with a Cervelo. The Orbea is a great bike and I love riding it but let's face it, Cervelo makes what most riders consider to be the fastest bikes around. Add to this the nudging and prodding that I've been getting from Chris about jumping ship to the Cervelo family and I've been browsing online for P3C frames. My preference would be to find a 2009 or 2010 frame and not go older than that but everything I'd found was still pretty pricey. Until today, and today I actually found 2 affordable frames. First I stumbled across a site (Totalcycling.com) that had new 2010 P3C frames for $600 lower than anywhere I'd previously seen. Wow, that caught my eye. But, these guys where in northern Ireland. First thoughts were is this a scam? You know what they say, if a price is too good to be true ...... it usually isn't true. And even if it was true these guys were in Ireland and would they even ship to Canada? So I started to research them and everything I found indicated that they were legit. I visited biking forums and many people said they'd bought from this site and were extremely happy with their service. I then visited the Cervelo site and did a search for UK dealers and yes sir, there they were .... Total Cycling in Northern Ireland. Woohoo. Now, shipping. I went back to the site and and found their shipping policies and yikes .... they ship worldwide!! Cost? Only 30 frikkin dollars!! Oh happy day! Now it doesn't end there. I wanted to get an idea of how much I could get for my Orbea frame to offset the cost of the Cervelo so I visited some usual sites that people advertise their bikes and component on. One of these is CanadianCyclist.com. While looking for price on frames there I came across an ad for, you guessed it, a Cervelo P3C frame for sale. Now this was a used frame but barely. It's a 2010, has 10 rides on it and minimal kilometres and the bonus was that the seller was local and the price just under the frame in Ireland. Many emails were exchanged and we ended speaking on the phone and arranged to meet up tomorrow afternoon so I can see the frame and make a decision. It is apparently in immaculate condition and you couldn't tell it from a new one. We'll see. Oh, and I almost forgot, I did 40 km on the bike today. Quite possibly the last ride on my Orbea. Now I'm sad.