Road Bike Vs Tri Bike Components

Yes, you'd just have to get levers/shifters if you went with the tri bullhorn/aero bar set up.  The bottom bracket may be an issue if it is Italian thread versus English, but everything else should work (assuming your "cheap" road bike is a standard Shimano based bike and not an older design - think 80's or older).

Yeah sounds good then. I was thinking your cheap road bike might be something older and might be more difficult, but it sounds like you should be fine.

Yeah or what he said.

Just remember that the Nemesis is the bike you can get from bikesdirect.com for under $1000.  I saw a guy on craigslist trying to sell his nemesis frame for $700, not that a BT'er would do that but I thought i'd give the infor anyway.

Other than that,  I happen to live in an area where they have LBS that have this bike in stock and I bought one for $900 and love it.  Great frame, great components, great LBS.  Buying my wife one after the new year and they are restocked.

Edit,  I just looked at bikesdirect and they did drop the price to $995, it was $1195, they must have them on clearance.  Either way if I tell my wife I want to spend a grand on a bike she would castrate me. 

Keep in mind that you would also need to buy shifters (~$85) and brake levers (~$25) as well as pay for labor to move components (~$75). That's $200 in addition to the cost of the frame.

Question though.  My parts are all currently Sora level.  Who do the levers work, do I need to buy sora also or can I go higher with the hopes of upgrading the derailers/brakes later? Also, my rear casset is 8 speed, can I get an 8 speed TT shifter?

If I'm an LBS, I quote you these prices:

1. Change components from Bike A to Bike B, $75.
2. Change components from Bike A to Bike B, and fix problems caused by customer doing some of the work himself as he used to tear apart his bikes as a kid, $125.

Have Rick do it for you .... case of Fat Tire ......

maybe if you rooted for the browns for a couple of games instead of that pittsburg team she might cut you some slack..plus remember KSH is going to be paying you some cash each month to yell at her to work out some.. proof to your wife that you 're working extra to get a new bike 

How about just getting some clip on aero bars. Less than $100.  You will gain some speed (surely more gain than dropping a few pounds on the frame) and some time to save some cash to buy a complete bike with better components.  Seems a little bit of a waist to me to replace your current frame with a nemesis and move over the low level components.  

Someone argued that more time in the seat is more important than a tri bike.  I agree that time in the saddle matters but when going from an upright position to a aero position gives an instant and very noticable gain in speed (proven by the tell tale cyclocomputer), going aero is hard to pass up.