He must be very very good
Nah, I just gave him the choice… 😉
Personal choice and all butmy first upgrade would have been tyres and the tektro brakes over going 1 x 11. That or a dropper.
The standard Maxxis tyres seem to go up tubeless OK in my experience as long as you use a decent amount of sealant, and they’re dependable treads. The Tektro brakes are surprisingly good to be fair! Maybe for a larger person, go to a 203 up front and a 180 out back, but they’re effective stoppers.
With you on the dropper mind…
.. pretty sure mboy sold an XL to a 6’7″ customer who’d never gotten a properly fitting XL, and he was apparently well impressed with the sizing
Yup and yup… Though to be fair, we’re now getting used to longer reaches and shorter stems, had they done an XXL I’m sure it would have fitted said customer even better, but it was by far the longest bike he’d swung a leg over previously anyway and he still enjoys riding it.
Yeah, I can see that witht he frame-only but at the same time, it seems like a really good frame, which they’ve had to put fairly low end parts on to make what’s still not a cheap/good value full build.
You might be happy dropping as much as £450 on the frame but not £900 or £1150 on a build that frankly belongs on a £600 halfords bike, and then replacing tons of it. Just doesn’t seem like they’ve really hit a sweet spot at all, bit of a shame with such potential.
I kind of want one, can you tell?
I think you’re being a touch unfair on the build, but it is all lower spec compared to the quality of the frame I’ll grant you. It’s workmanlike kit that you would replace over time (or upgrade immediately if you had the budget) yes, but it all works ok. The frame is indeed the star of the show.
629 is a cracking spec though… Shame it’s a bit of a boring colour!
This! He’s always been great to deal with. He’s incredibly knowledgeable too.
Cheers Dude! 😀
I really want mboys version of events
Renton popped into the shop, asked to have a look at the 529/629. We got chatting, he announced who he was, we chatted a bit more, he asked when I could get one in in a Large and could I possibly deliver or meet him half way with it sometime soon (his parents live near my shop, he’s about 80 miles away now). Luck would have it they were in stock at distributor, I was going near to where he lives (yesterday had to go past Oxford anyway) so we did the deal… 🙂
Enjoy it Renton! Pop a pic up when you’ve got your new bits on… Like I said, still reckon you want to shorten the stem a little too, especially if you’re going wider on the bars.