Carbon Mountain Bike Seatpost
April 4th, 2010
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is my new mountain bike good?
i’m going to build a pure XC bike using parts from my old GT bike. important thing is to build a fast bike for road and off-road. weight is quite an important thing
this are the new spec. will probably build it next year
Frame- giant XTC team
fork- Rockshox SID team 07
bar- ABR
stem- truvativ
grip- GT
headset- canecreek
seatpost- ABR
seatclamp- GT
saddle- velo ti/carbon railling
deraillure- front deore, rear deore
cassette- deore
chain- kmc z9000
shifter- deore rapidfire
shifter cable- jagwire sealed 4.0
crankset- truvativ isoflow
bb- truvativ powersline
pedal- shimano spd
brake lever- avid fr-5
brakes- tektro aquila with 160mm rotors
brake cable- shimano m-system
wheelset- mavic xc717 rim, shimano 08 XT hub, dt swiss competition spokes
tire- kenda nevegal 26×2.1″
fork is 07 SID race.
sorry for the error
Sounds great! Hope you have fun building and riding it!
Edit: Nice choice of frame and forks. It’ll be a light weight for sure.
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