As long as CRC has all the bits.
It’s been over fourteen months since I rode a mountainbike, and I’m flimmin excited TBH. They say a rest is as good as a thingy.

Regards my recent thread about a ‘blindingly cheap MTB’ I’m hoping to be up riding and racing for about eighty quid all in, on a bike that truely befits an oldgit.

BTW is CRC okay to use, heard rumours.

I got caught out using CRC last March and haven’t used them since…but Paypal is your friend if you’re worried.

Well they didn’t have half the odds and ends I needed. XC Racer was a big help 🙂 so off to the LBS for the rest.

Total cost so far £40.46

Good news ( and crc have been ok for me)

Epping Forest beckons. And I’ve not been there before.

CRC delivery times have been great again with me. Ordered and delivered within 2 days.

£80!? That’s ridiculous I’m assuming that there are lots of spares/second hand bits going on this bike! And CRC have been fine for me and there delivery is back up to speed again, ordered last night dispatched by the time I got home today.

What frame did you go with in the end oldgit?

bullheart, Dirty Jo Semi Creme.

Hi burnie, you’re right lots of hand me downs and s/h stuff. The target was to build a bike really just for the FNSS Friday Night Summer Series of XC races. So I didn’t want to go and buy new for just 45 minutes racing a week. I’ve ended up with a pants bike but fine for the job.
Dirty Jo frame
SIDs 100mm v/old
Crank Bros headset
XT running gear. 1st generation HT2 kit
XT hydros
Easton carbon post
Flite saddle
Alex low spoke wheels, very light with Speed King Supersonics
EggBeaters
Maxim stem
KCNC foam grips

Still need flat bars, gear cables, jockey wheels and a single HT2 spacer.

I’ve ended up with a pants bike but fine for the job

Whoa! That’s a pants bike? 😯

That sounds ace. I think the Dirty Jo frames are a real sleeper frame; great quality, nice finish, and light too.

I had my last mtb nicked in Oct 2010, but if I’m honest would only really ride it once or twice a month, being a roadie and racing. But I did find I was missing the odd blast out, so picked up a second hand soul frame in Dec, and slowly picked up bits keeping it pretty budget. Finally finished and took it out for 5 odd hours in the peak last weekend and had a fantastic time! Some comedy crashes caused by enthusiasm mixed with my now rubbish off road skills gave me massive smiles (and some bruises). It’ll never be my first love but it reminded me I would want to be without it.

So when’s its maiden voyage?

I’m out most Sat mornings at the moment if you fancy company.

I probably have a HT2 spacer kicking round if you still need one?

Still need flat bars

Any good?

http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/article/race-face-ride-xc-flat-bar/aid:257381/fromtopoffers:1

Jase I was meant to be riding with some old boys this Friday over in Epping.
Just went to buy a few bits and my LBS is shut all week.
loum, tis a good deal, but I trying to get sorted for Friday.
That flipping HT2 spacer is proving a real PITA.

Post some pics when it is finished, sounds like a great bike 🙂

Still need flat bars, gear cables, jockey wheels and a single HT2 spacer.

Ha found some unused cables and bits of Jagwire outer in a rather fetching yellow.
Downside is that I need two HT2 spacers, and they’re bloody hard to find 😡

So still running at £40.46 🙂

Email me yr address if you can wait a few days for spacers. got loads.

Cheers, can’t believe I’ve not got any?

Haven’t rode in 6 weeks because the bike I ordered was out of stock at work. I have withdrawal symptoms already! 😉
Getting mine Friday too cannot wait!

Done.
£55.45

Only down side is my grips didn’t arrive and my Easton EC70 is at a mates. So a ten ton post is doing the job for Friday as are some old rubber grips.
The Deore style cassette weighs a ton, that’ll be replaced with an XT and XL9L chain when needs be.

So Treated myself to a bottle of each of Rego, PSP22 and Go.

Fifty quid bike earlier today.
Had a great long bimble on it today with good company. Especialy enjoyed listening to an old ex pro Holdsworth rider going on about how he now enjoyed mtb’ing so much.

How did you like Epping then? Is the going soft at the moment?

Bargain and not bad looking for £50.

Hi. They were here when I got home BTW.
I enjoyed it, it was my first MTB ride in over a year though, and my first ride in Epping. We were out for about five hours and TBH the going was okay, it must have been frozen underneath.
Rode the forest, along the river and all over!. Stopped at a café, ‘The Riverside’ I think.
So yes very nice.
I take it you know the place then?

Edit; never ride with an old pro off road without crudcatchers…they will mention it once or twice 😐

I live nearby yep, been working weekends so not made my normal Sunday group ride for ages though.

You must have seen the lot in five hours!

Wondering where the hell I was most of the time.
The host was great, an old boy in his 70s was an old pro, Tour of Britain, Milk race etc.
Showed me his Banana skin shrine.
Has tools stashed en route near extremely muddy bits.
Bits of plastic to sit on at Beauty spots.
Tricked me with a plastic banana…made his day that did.
And shouts out to every other biker ‘WHY AREN’T YOU AT WORK’.

So if you get yelled at by a kin fast old bloke riding a blue Ritchey steel fully rigid or his posh bike a Maverick, you’ll know who it is.

yikes ! is that a flite on there ? ouch ouch ouch

Whut you talking about….comfy wumfy.