So I bought a nice high-end XC carbon frame on eBay. Checked the frame number beforehand with a couple of likely police forces to make sure it wasn’t stolen. Paid cash on pick up at the address so I could check it thoroughly before handing over the dosh. Thought I’d done ok there.
Bought a bunch of components to match, built most of it myself and chucked it down to the LBS for finishing off the stuff I couldn’t figure out. And lo and behold, they’ve found a crack near the rear shock mount. Repairable? Hmm… Dead frame? Likely. Darn darn darn.
But since I’d still like to go riding, and now have a bunch of components, what frames are around to match the following?
Required:
29er
15mm front and 12mm rear axles
Tapered steerer 1 1/8 – 1 1/2
Rear shock 165×38
I got 180/180 brakes, so min 160/160 prepared (can do adapters for the rest)
Fairly compact headtube since the steerer is pretty low cut
sram compatible BB (whichever way that may be)
Less important but with bonus points:
44-55 headset (it was a Lapierre, I think Scott use the same?)
31.6 seatpost
I obviously expect some loss, e.g. bushings and such, but just trying to minimise it.
So far I have found
Lapierre 529/729/929
Cannondale Scalpel 29 (assuming a twin fork can work just fine?)
Cube AMS 100 Super HPC Race 29
It’s a bit of a dig around to find candidates, so if anyone know of some it’d be much appreciated. It was meant to be a low-cost project so I’d still go either 2nd hand or offer – a £2k frameset is not in the budget. 😐 It’ll be a waiting game and just hang around until a matching frame comes up but if I at least have the candidate list at hand it’ll be a lot easier.
If anyone know of specific offers I’m 6’1 (184cm) with 32″ inseam. I’d expect size ~18″/19″-ish, or Large, whichever format they use.
Thanks!
