Ok ok, I didnt have all the bits to finish off the build (reducer shims for the right front mech) and I need to remove the hose for brake hose to route etc but…… sod it, t’was a lovely aft and I wanted to ride it 😀

I will finish building it properly tomorrow evening but for now…

looks shit 😉

Looks good, but what’s going on with the rear mech in pic 2, chain a link or two too long ??????

So that long travel hardtail purchase went well then?

Nice bike btw but I echo the comment on the rear mech

dibs.

bah, beaten by MrSmith !

I set the front mech as a make-do chain device but it dropped into the grannie ring in the first part of that descent. Yes, I should have been patient and waited until it was finished properly. Me bad 😀

Mrsmith- I bought it on ‘tick. As with my Blur (14months) and Heckler (just under 2yrs) previously (also on the never never’)- it wont get sold until my last payments paid on it! 😀

It rides err, abit ‘fast’. Felt like someone who had just passed his driving test and been given the keys to a 911!

I know your a bit weird Mark, but WTF is that rubber flap about?
Is that what you stick your knob in now the frame is built?

😉

Wheres Simon Barnes? He’ll be jealous over my ace pics 😉

(reducer shims for the right front mech

don’t forget ,left front mechs have a different size reducer

Hora, nice bike. Is it a 20″ ? If so, how tall are you and what stem length are you using ?

On classifieds in 5….4….3…..2…..

18″, 6ft2, GSOH. 70 stem- it feels spot on for me.

Jamie

18″, 6ft2, WHY..

Looking good 8) . More white ‘bigger bike’ pics please – none of that 100mm malarky.