Not sure but I ordered from sunset and had to pay for mountain mint 🙁 I got a free hope headset though.

I bought frame only though as I had all the bits already.

Do they have any deals on five frames atm? I’ll be after one in a few weeks

Think Silver would look good with any of the hope colour’s.

That’s weird, it shows as a cost option on the frame deal but not the whole bike!

They are the only place that offer the factory wheel upgrade aswell, pondering the pro’s and con’s of going for the RS wheel upgrade or the factory.

RS is Alexrims voltar 2.5 rims
Factory is Easton ARC rims.. Both sets on Hope hubs..

The DB5 brakes appear to get a decent write up so they will stay.

Spec I’m looking at is :

5 pro in small
Standard forks and shock
Upgraded 1×11 XT drivetrain
KS Lev dropper (save me trying to fit one later)
Hope headset, BB and seatclamp
RS or factory wheels? Not sure which yet.
Colour TBC
I’ll be fitting a carbon bar and 40 or 45mm stem aswell.

I’ve a 2014 one in the polished variety, however, have noticed orange have brought back the fluro pink option so very tempted by a respray… £200 is a lot though.. There’s a free upgrade of pink if you buy a new frame, wonder if I can ask about them respraying, hmm…

Well this little beauty just turned up 🙂

I’m really not looking forward to threading the break cable through the swingarm! Took me hours last time and needed a full bleed!

Vacuum cleaner, length of string, pull it through..,

It’s a doddle, just tape it to the supplied rod that I can see in the gear cable hole..
But obviously thread the rod into the brake cable hole first..lol

Nice. The new top tube is a lovely shape, eh?

They are very nice in the flesh, but sat next to my Mk1m the Mk2 looked really long.

As daft as it sounds I’d not thought about using the gear cable piece afterwards in the brake side!

Ha what an idiot!

Its easy to thread brake cable front to rear and use a bit of garden wire to fish it out at the inside hole.

I used a very old brake pipe threaded front to rear and then pulled the new one through with this

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