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  • 4 month, a load of £, lots of trawling the classifieds and swaring but its done!
  • nickewen
    Free Member

    After much time spent online selecting and purchasing a variety of new and 2nd hand parts, and a lot of time in the garage swaring and realising stuff didn’t fit/work I have completed my first build and I’m over the moon with it. Absolutely great feeling riding a bike you’ve built yourself. The biggest revelation of the first ride at my local trails was the seatpost and wide bars!

    I’ll now let the STW collective cast their views on my first ever build… Be gentle! 😀


    Seat Up by VeeeDubStar, on Flickr

    Posted 11 years ago
    geoffj
    Full Member

    Front brake hose needs sorting

    Edit: Looks very nice actually

    Posted 11 years ago
    jota180
    Free Member

    valves – logos

    Posted 11 years ago
    ads678
    Full Member

    Yep, that’ll do the trick. Have fun.

    Posted 11 years ago
    ianpinder
    Free Member

    😆

    Posted 11 years ago
    Liftman
    Full Member

    Car could do with a wash

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Noted – That was the last thing to go on and I simply couldn’t be chewed to do it before hitting the trails…. Cheers

    Posted 11 years ago
    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Someone’s stolen your number plate letters 😀

    Posted 11 years ago
    JAG
    Full Member

    Nice bike – building makes ya feel good huh 8)

    However geoffj is right about that front hose 😀

    Posted 11 years ago
    theendisnigh
    Free Member

    nice!

    (could do with clear helitape)

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Logos on tyre match up with logos on wheels – the red bit with the red bit…. I have my own weird OCD thing with that. Car does need a wesh too! 🙂

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Gonna do front brake hose tonight and T-cut the mota

    Posted 11 years ago
    boblo
    Free Member

    what’s swaring?

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Swaring is what i do when I’m trying to write a post quickly at work without other folk noticing 😀

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Theendisnigh – think I am gonna helitape actually. I did the integral parts with cheap sticky velcro from B&Q for ease. Any recommendations for decent helitape? Never used it before. Cheers

    Posted 11 years ago
    float
    Free Member

    I dont like flows 🙁

    apart from that looks great 😀

    Posted 11 years ago
    teamslug
    Free Member

    Cranks not parallel with ground for photo…looks good though and well done…does feel good building your own. Just make sure front wheel is in properly cos you cant sue yourself.

    Posted 11 years ago
    chakaping
    Free Member

    Sweet ride. You’ve done very well there.

    Posted 11 years ago
    Teetosugars
    Free Member

    It’s not a Five…

    Result!

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    Thanks for all the comments everyone! Can’t wait to get out the office and shred this thing tonight! After shortening the brake hose of course.

    Posted 11 years ago
    freeridenick
    Free Member

    Best AM out there…

    Posted 11 years ago
    binners
    Full Member

    No garden? tsk tsk fundamental schoolboy error there!

    Nice bike though. Tis indeed a good feeling building your own bike from scratch. Only trouble is, you’ll now immediately be looking for your next build. Which hardtail are you going for then? 😉

    Posted 11 years ago
    philwarren11
    Free Member

    How much did it cost all do you reckon mate?

    I think for my next bike its going to be a DIY jobbie.

    Posted 11 years ago
    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Looks good but I would try and tame that lower loop of front brake hose if you ride anywhere remotely wooded.

    Posted 11 years ago
    Kato
    Full Member

    Bar end cap logos horizontal with the ground please

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    I reckon it probably cost me around 1600ish… That doesn’t include bits raided from the parts bin namely the forks, rear brake, tyres, and stem. The forks came off of a mountain cycle battery I used to have and have the 1.5″ steerer so was limited on frames but had just had them serviced by TF so was keen to use them. The frames have come down in price since I paid £799 for mine…

    However after purchasing the Hope tech m4 evo brake for the front after realising my old m4 wasn’t gonna work (adaptor would have pushed the rotor size above spec for the fork) I reckon a new rear wont be too long…

    Posted 11 years ago
    mojo5pro
    Free Member

    great build, looks mint. Don’t understand where the forks came from? from a cycle battery? 😯

    Posted 11 years ago
    nickewen
    Free Member

    A ‘Mountain Cycle – Battery’. It’s like a mini DH/slopestyle type bike. It was very heavy and I wasn’t really using it so raided it for forks and sold the rest.

    Posted 11 years ago
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