I’ve been taking my old “hack” mountain bike on the school run this week, rather than my usual winter road bike. As I was picking it up from where I’d left it (unlocked), it struck me just how much of it was top of the range when new, even if it’s all now old – Dyna-Tech MT5 frame, Skareb Super fork, XTR rear mech and 8sp cassette, Ritchey WCS rims, SLR saddle, USE XCR post, niche FRM carbon bars. The XT brifters and front mech almost seem low spec.
It’s only really a hack bike because it was built up out of my cast-off bits (much of it hadn’t been used for several years, some for almost 10 years). Actually quite tempted to post a pic in the bike pron thread – the frame does have ti chainstays (it’s one of the glued ones with metal matrix main tubes), and is probably actually rarer than most on there.
So anybody else have a posh hack bike they’d like to share?