I was bored so decided to build a bike from what has become a huge pile of spares in my garage.

The wheels and tyres fitted weren't spares but borrowed from my Epic – I had some Hope XC/X317's with Conti Twisters on but they were a lot heavier as it was 24.4lbs with those fitted and 23.1lbs with the American Classics on.

I've agreed with SWMBO that I'll only have a maximum of 5 bikes at any one time so I'm currently in negotiations to keep this classified as spares!

Whilst it is quite nice it bears the hated name of "Hinde". Now go sit on the naughty step and think about it…

A few years back I had the same frame but blue and badged as a Dolan. Quite tempted to get this one re-painted like that.

That's really nice and no doubt very satisfying to have built it 'free' 😉