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A few clips of the bike in motion

Thanks mate, I’ve pm’d you the details 👍🏻

I’ll take them if you still have them please?

I’ll take these buddy 👍🏻 if you want to DM me your PayPal I’ll ping the money over.

A true gent, thank you sir 👍🏻

Thank you 👍🏻 I’ve started to get used to a massive frame beneath me so have been trying a few more technical moves. I wish I’d got into this era of bike sooner!

Another little ride out, me and my son went to the local skatepark to make the most of a dry morning!

So now that the submission date for the bike build off has passed, I decided to do some modifications… Disc mount welded to the rear, fitted some Frankenstein brakes, consisting of XT leverS with some newer XT callipers from brakes I’ve butchered in the past to make shiguras. The wheels have...

Thank you for the kind words mate, I’m looking forward to some better weather so I can see what the bike is capable of on a more predictable surfaces. The challenge of throwing these older bigger bikes around is like starting all over again, but that’s what’s keeping me wanting to do it, the...

@nstarmore thank you sir, I’m glad I took the plunge and put discs on it. And thank you about the cheap bike build off entry, that was possibly the most enjoyable build I’ve done. Working to a deadline with a strict budget really sharpened focus and made me wonder what I could do to put my...

Some little steps we found on a recent ride, like a little urban feature ti mess about on, although we were both spent by the time we got here after a very muddy cross country ride. Then there’s this, put the Medium (brand name) chain ring to the test 😬

And some pics in the wild from a few recent rides:

Some more clips of bike foolery:

Thank you, I’m happy it’s looking something like it did originally. A vast improvement to when I first got my hands on it. The brakes is a funny one, I actually like the bite that the BB7s offer over the XT’s (I have an older model that I was contemplating using). I’m running both sets of...

Good question! I’m thinking a a bit of a mix of old and modern components. Black components where I can. Wheels will likely to be hope pro4 hubs on hope enduro rims. Tan wall billy bonkers. Cranks I’m undecided on but have some black truvativ ones spare - running them 1x 9 or possibly 10...

I couldn’t wait, decals added 🤗

Frame and fork back from the powder coaters! The colour I went for bizarrely looks very similar to the original metallic green colour, however this is actually called ‘racing bronze’. I’ll get some more pictures in day light tomorrow. Considering this frame was in such a bad state when I got...

Great to hear that the thread has given you some inspiration 👍🏻 Kind of what the challenge was all about. The good thing about this challenge was a pre defined budget, and a deadline. That kept me razor focused on getting it done fast and cheap. Also made me think about what the most important...

Thanks for the kind words! It’s crazy that this has cost me a fraction of the price of my other bikes, but has turned out so well. The idea of the challenge was to prove you didn’t need a stack of cash to have a cool bike. Which to be fair is mantra a lot of people on this forum champion...