[Closed] My first bike build… Obsolete Soul content

Why would you want less travel? 140mm is the shit for hardtails

iainc, that's the spirit!

Let's get STW's 1,000,000th Soul thread going... Post your pics people!

Northwind - they work just fine for me - (that's the beauty of never having ridden a Float)! 😀

Very nice!

Ignore the haters and enjoy riding it, I'm loving my new BFe (with terribly unfashionable 160mm forks!)

that will be a bloody good bike! EVEN IF IT IS OLD FASHIONED

Lovely!

My MK1 Soul needs a respray - that is a nice colour.

But apparently the MK1 is the wrong shape to go 2x10, decisions, decisions....

C'mon Soul owners, post some pics! ...Please.

This one is soon to be going on the market if anyone is interested..?

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Excuse the cables...

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souls rock!

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I'd have a black marker to some of the free adverts but other than that, looks just right to me

Castlewellan, N Ireland.

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See, proportion is what its all about - if you get my drift.

I_Ache - Member

Are you mental? That would look terrible!

Maybe my bike might help you assess the likelihood. See, now imagine the elements I mentioned on the OP's Cotic:
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I think it would look brill

WTF is that?

(a monstrosity)

If you can't say something nice, say nothing.

<says nothing>

Black frame, white rims:

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^^^^^ Words fail me...

But apparently the MK1 is the wrong shape to go 2x10, decisions, decisions....

Can you not use a 10spd triple, and take the outer ring off?

Shouldn't be any reason why you can't run 2x10 but you'll need a double specific crank if you want bigger than a 36T chainring.

I run 1x9 on a SLX triple with a 36T in the middle position and that's the largest that will fit without fouling the chainstay (on a 2009 pre-CEN frame)

HTH

Absolute shocker

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Absolute shocker

Yep. Leaning at a funny angle. Crank not lined up with chainstay. Background not mostly white/off-white.

He has lined up the tyre labels with the valves though.

Shouldn't be any reason why you can't run 2x10 but you'll need a double specific crank if you want bigger than a 36T chainring

Er, yes there is. Not enough chainstay clearance.

2x9 (plus bash) was fine, but Shimano moved everything inboard for 2x10 for a XC racing setup.

On an old frame, you need to use a 3x10 crank and take the outer off, if sold on 10spd.

Surely a double crank has both rings offset from the centreline by the same amount, so the outer on a double is further out than the centre on a triple?

Take a look at Shimano's 2x10 crank specs... don't forget to allow for larger diam chainrings as well.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-running-xt-double-crankset-on-a-soul ]an old STW forum thread[/url]

You can get doubles with 50mm chainline though (not XT), which may allow you to go up to to a 38T or 40T rather than the 36T with a triple (and 50mm chainline)

38t is as big as you'd want to go with a 2 x 10 setup on an old (pre CEN) Soul IMO. That's what I'm running (M785 38-26 XT), it works fine but it's pretty close!

Beautiful, OP - but shockimg timing for me, as I was just about to re-do my black Soul 2010 (mk2) in white... thinking that I was being original!

Hope you don't mind me very possibly copying you! I do have white Fox forks to go with it though...

Any details you'd recommend that I should know before doing it? (E.g. recommended place, affixing decals etc...).

Thanks 🙂