Dug this 2004 frame and forks out of the garage, the shock was toast so had to replace that, fitted a dropper and replaced the rear cassette for a 11-40t and a 30t single up front to make a ghetto 1x9 setup.
Chucked a non perished set of tyres on, and it’s just like I remember it. Tyres are pretty sketchy actually, are ‘Conti Vert Pros’ still popular on here?!
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That RM Switch is awesome. I remember thinking that was an absolute monster of a bike..... but it looks like a trail bike now!
That’s good because trail riding is all I do nowadays anyway!
Really deserves a better photo, but my new frame, ordered at the start of lockdown finally arrived.
Definitely deserves some new, shinier parts, but this will do for now.
Can't get photos to work 😐
Replacing an old Carerra commuter which donated most of it's (non standard previously updated) parts:
Cove HJ, Exotic carbon fork, 1x9 SRAM, Hope Pro2 hubs with 26 rims, Avid Elixir brakes.
Based on a freebie Planet X Uncle John frame, this has undergone three incarnations - roadified CX, commuter and, now, gravel grinder. Built from 95% spares and parts bin acquisitions. Sora 2 X 9, Mavic Open Sport on XT hubs, Lyra mechanical discs, 37mm WTB Riddlers.
Not light, not packed with cutting edge technology but the most fun of the bikes I currently own (expensiver/faster roadie, bouncier 29er full sus).
Injury + lockdown conspired to result in a new frame and cranks for the 20er because bikes. Fiend Reynolds 21TT frame in trans green over raw for the record
Frame arrived at the start of lockdown. Enduro frame sold and parts swapped over. Its a quick bit of kit, even more with the X2 on the back.
Started looking like this:
Swapped out the rockshox bits for fox bits:
