building your own bike

Roddy

I have been given a Kona Cinder Cone frame, and i was going to build a XC bike around this. Is this a good frame to use for this? is it light enough? and does it warrant using XT components all round?

Jimbob_no5

it warrants whatever you want to put on it, what year frame is it? it'll do XC no probs but have a look on www.konaworld.com for more info

Megatron-UK

XT bits and lightweight wheels and it'll make a great bike.

The steel Kona frames are really good; I've got a really old Lava Dome myself and despite it's age, the geometry and performance of the frame is fantastic.
The frames themselves are lightweight; but to prevent the bikes from being too expensive, Kona has traditionally stuck less than steller components on them. They fully deserve better parts IMO.

BlackSpur

It'll be a cracker with a set of these on it
http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=product&productId=1070&categoryId=18