Hi, thinking of building up an old xc frame into something light and whippety with perhaps only a light smattering of gears and suspension. I need the 15mm dropout (I’d be using the set of wheels from the PA – they’re pretty decent and I’ll only be riding one bike at a time) and I’d like to get close to the original geometry, based around a Bomber Z2s – 432mm a2c
If I got SIDs, I’d have to spacer them down to something like 60- 70mm, so I figure I may as well go the whole hog and go rigid. There are some ragleys on crc that would work but my tarty side says the fat crown and general voluptuousness won’t look right with the skinny steel frame, plus they’d not save any money over a 2nd hand pair of SIDs.
There are guys like Vicious out there who’d probably take a slice of my hard earned for something custom but again, we’d be well into sus fork prices, I’d guess.
So something like a Kona P2 in 435-440mm flavour would be perfect. Anything out there I might have overlooked?