Custom Charge Duster. Updated. See last post.

-liam-

Bought this frame nice and cheap advertised as a large. I wasnt actually looking for one but I couldnt turn it down and thought I could "Grow into it" (I'm only 5ft 10). Turns out the seller didnt have a clue and it was a small so I put it up for sale. It still hasnt sold so I decided to build it up.

Now the frame itself isnt massively smaller than my 18" Kona Kula. An inch in the seat post and about the same in the top tube. I've put an 80mm stem on so nothing odd there. I've rotated the Bonty Carbon Risers a little forward, the seat post is up an inch higher than it was on my Kona and I've put the seat back on the rails. Perhaps a bit to much tbh as I was a little stretched out. Been out this afternoon and to be fair, there is nothing wrong with the fit. I'm stetched out, my legs straighten at the lowest point on the pedals and it feels great. Maneuverable and nimble on its toes. Makes all this stuff about frame sizes seem quite irrelavent.

I think she looks great. I might even keep it

What do you think ?









Frame: Steel Charge Duster
Forks: RS Recon
Bars: Bontrager Xlite Carbon Risers
Stem: 80mm Truvativ Team
Headset: Cane Creek s8
Grips: Red Superstar Lockons
Bar Ends:

Front Brake Lever assy: Avid Juicy 5
Front Caliper: Avid Juicy 5
Front disc: 180mm Wavy rotor
Rear Brake Lever assy: Avid Juicy 5
Rear Caliper: Avid Juicy 5
Rear Disc: 160mm wavy rotor
Hoses: Avid Juicy 5


Shifters: xt
Cables: xtr
Front Mech: deore
Rear Mech: xtr
Chain Device:

Seat: Wtb Brown charge spoon
Seat Post: Thomson Layback
Seat Post Clamp: Red spank

Cranks: slx
Chainring(s): slx triple
Chain: Sram 971
Cassette: Sram
Pedals: white Shimano m520
Bottom Bracket: xt

Front Wheel:
Rim: DT Swiss E540
Spokes: DT Swiss
Hub: DT Swiss
Tube: tesco
Tire: Conti Mountain King 22 or Panaracer xc pro 2.1's

Back Wheel:
Rim: DT Swiss 4.1D
Spokes: DT Swiss
Hub: Shimano XT
Tube:
Tire: conti mountain king 2.2 or Panaracer xc pro 2.1's

Weight: About 4.5 tons

woodnut

smashing looking, especially considering what you paid ( I saw the ad on ebay)...
Dusters are a great bike, I think you should keep it, maybe get a longer stem and straight bars & move the seat forward a bit??

Where are my stabilisers?

I likey 8)

-liam-

woodnut wrote:

smashing looking, especially considering what you paid ( I saw the ad on ebay)...
Dusters are a great bike, I think you should keep it, maybe get a longer stem and straight bars & move the seat forward a bit??

Yup. Will be getting a 100mm stem. Have already moved the seat forward 20mm. No sure i need to change the bars. They are quite wide and i like that.

Da Mighty Chicken

Nice pub bike you got there, like it

How much were you selling the frame for?

-liam-

Pub bike ha ha! Like it
Frame was for sale for 100ish plus. I'll keep it for a bit now though... To go to the pub on

Da Mighty Chicken

-Liam- wrote:

Pub bike ha ha! Like it
Frame was for sale for 100ish plus. I'll keep it for a bit now though... To go to the pub on

hee hee, is nice though

Happy Harry

That's a nice looking bike. Well done, mate!

stuisnew

Really tidy, good work. I saw in WMB a sneak peek at the 2011 duster and they've gone retro with purple paint and super skinny tubes. Nice bikes, tempted to get one in the future.

-liam-

Couple more bits added.

Some new (to me) wheels. Bit of a mix, but quality stuff. Front is a dt swiss hub and spokes on a dt swiss e540 rim and the rear is a dt swiss 4.1d rim and spokes on an xt hub.

Also took delivery of a Thomson layback seat post so everything fits bang on now and looks nice and I've got a brown Charge Spoon on the way.

Going to get a few shiny bits from Superstars. Anodised seat clamp and skewers. Dunno if I should stick with the blue to match the Superstar Grips that I took from my old bike or start again as I quite fancy some red bits

Any views ?

Pics

Laurence25

Red grips and red shiny bits and it will look even better

Levi_501

Looks lovely mate

-liam-

Red grips and other red shiny bits added

New red headset will be fitted when the current one dies and I might get some red superstar skewers if they are any good.

Have fitted Superstar red grip. Just changed the cartridges from the blue ones
Red bottle holder
Red Spank Seat Clamp
Some red Hope headset spacers.

Pics...

Tolk

Looks really good mate, red looks better than the blue did imho. My mate has the superstar skewers, he prefers them to his old XT ones if that helps you!

Where are my stabilisers?

Nice pimping - It's a great looking bike!

-liam-

Tolk wrote:

Looks really good mate, red looks better than the blue did imho. My mate has the superstar skewers, he prefers them to his old XT ones if that helps you!

It does thanks

-liam-

Tried a white headset.

I like it. Not sure if a red one would look better ..

Get me and all this pimping

Laurence25

Big fan gr8 looking bike dude how does she ride ??

shx8000

Looking good, assume you'll be looking for a little more than £100 now????

-liam-

Laurence25 wrote:

Big fan gr8 looking bike dude how does she ride ??

Lovely mate. Very smooth and easy to hold a line on. Feel very comfortable on it.

shx8000 wrote:

Looking good, assume you'll be looking for a little more than £100 now????

Well that was just for the frame

But i like building up new bikes so if and when i fancy something else then i'd not ask much more than 100...for the frame!

Wouldn't mind something that can take a longer fork but i really do like this bike.

maxspeed76

Hi m8, where did u get that bottle cage from on your charge and also can you get it in gold, just in the middle of pimping my bike up and would look good if i could get a gold one!.

Cheers.