If you had seen my post about a month ago, I bought a cheap full sus frame from ebay and couldn't find a way to tell the wife!
After a little story of 'borrowing' it from a mate's brother and selling parts to pay for it and getting the question 'Is it want you REALLY want?' I decided it was time to build it up.
So using parts from my exsisting SS hardtail, I have built up this Giant Trance 4 frame with my Fox 120s, XT brakes, XTR cranks, GD seatpost, FSA stem, Hope Pro IIs with ZTR 355 rims and I have added a super short Sram 10 spd Rival rear mech mixed with an X7 10 spd shifter, 105 cassette, Superstar chain device and treated myself to some Renthal bars.
I am running 32 x 11-28 gearing with the Superstar plasma chain device. TBH the Superstar chain device doesn't sit perfectly with the XTR cranks but seems to OK for now.
I also used some 'Mud Lovers' cables which for £17 (crc) for the set seem really good. Oh and I bought some sticky velcro to use as a chainstay protector as it's supposed to help keep the chain quiet and went a bit mad putting it on in lots of places.
My overall plan is to keep the SS frame and when I fancy just swap the key parts over, leaving the mech, shifter, chain device, BB and headset on this frame and having the same BB and compatible headset on the SS frame.
Anywhere here are the pictures:
Exsisting bike:
DSCF6591 by Jackass123456789, on Flickr
Trance:
DSCF6597 by Jackass123456789, on Flickr
DSCF6598 by Jackass123456789, on Flickr
DSCF6599 by Jackass123456789, on Flickr
DSCF6600 by Jackass123456789, on Flickr
