My pimped Giant Anthem X4

Fewie

Thought I'd post some new pics of my X4 now I've done a bit to it.

Mods thus far are as follows:

Hope Blue QR skewers and seat clamp.
Superstar White grips with blue lock on clamps/plugs
Avid Elixir 5's in White (185mm F&R)
Maxxis High Roller 2.1's









Plans for the future include getting round to fitting the Xt f&r mechs and cassette I have in the garage. After that I fancy fitting a White charge spoon (sick of "tundra" arse after a long ride) and then maybe a new wheelset. Don't know weather to go hope hoops with a blue hub or superstar wheels the I could have White hubs and Blue rims.

Opinions welcome guys, good or bad![/i]

bennett_346

Very nice! The grips won't stay white for long though 8)

road_donut

mmmmmm i do like Anthems

MountainMonster

Lookin good there mate, and he's right the grips won'T stay white for too long. I've put white grips on a couple days ago and they are already not so white.

NORTHERNSHAGGY

Charge Limited Edition Surface Spoon Saddle from evans would look mint on this £24.99

bobcheese

very nice looking bike. I love white and blue very crips. Need to turn the QR round though

Stoo61

Thats nice, get a Ritchey WCS wet white finishing kit.

+1 for sorting the skewer though...shame on you.

Fewie

Was gonna correct the skewer, but I thought let's see who's anal enough to point it out!

I put the grips on yesterday, washed the bike today and somehow there muckier!?!

Stevo_666

Some nice pimpin' going on there with the blue highlights. But a bottle cage?? Get a grip man, or buy a road bike

bartimaeus

Stevo 666 wrote:

Some nice pimpin' going on there with the blue highlights. But a bottle cage?? Get a grip man, or buy a road bike

Belay that... but get a BLUE bottle cage

Fewie

Tbh I now have a camelback now so the bottle cage is redundant, really should take it off. I'm wondering if I could get the brake levers and caliper adapters anodised blue too.

Seriously considering the black charge spoon recommended above, would continue my colour scheme but get rid of the White saddle which is a right pain to keep clean.

stu8975

White and Blue Anthem X...you been spying on me?

Don't go over the top on the colour matching, I know of such a person who colour matched everything on his white bike (white/red) and it didn't look too good by the time he'd finished....and he regretted it, and subsequently toned it down.

stubs

The Superstar blue grips are a decent match for the blue on the Anthem my mate had the white grips on his X4 but everyones right they stay white for precisely 5 minutes.

njee20

Needs some proper pedals too, Egg Beater SLs would look good and fit the colour scheme :-)

Should try and get some of the Elixir CRs that come on the more expensive Giants, with the blue bits, they look good.

sherbert19

njee20 wrote:

Needs some proper pedals too, Egg Beater SLs would look good and fit the colour scheme :-)

Should try and get some of the Elixir CRs that come on the more expensive Giants, with the blue bits, they look good.

+1

http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/articl ... le%2Fimage

They would look really good, even better if they could be had in white and blue.

Dirtydog11

I think some Hope Blue floating rotors would sweet.

sherbert19

Dirtydog11 wrote:

I think some Hope Blue floating rotors would sweet.

Yeah they would, although there can be problems with the rivets fouling the calipers on avid brakes, more often than not you have to grind some of the pad backing plate away.

TorchXC

nice
im doing a giant reign at the moment in white except going with the red theme,
superstar is a good shout for the wheelset, i plan on going red rims with white hubs for the bling bling

Bred2shred

Nice bike mister, geez a shot.

cloudynights

bobcheese wrote:

very nice looking bike. I love white and blue very crips. Need to turn the QR round though

whats wrong with QR, its out of the way up there

stubs

Not a good idea to have a QR pointing forward it could be fun if a branch caught it and flicked it open the wheel wont come off because of the lawyer tabs but it will make your front end a bit wobbly. Probably make your backside go wobbly as well

cloudynights

stubs wrote:

Not a good idea to have a QR pointing forward it could be fun if a branch caught it and flicked it open the wheel wont come off because of the lawyer tabs but it will make your front end a bit wobbly. Probably make your backside go wobbly as well

ok i dont ride trail centres, just xc, rocks and boulders my biggest worry so a lever pointing down easy to bang up into forks, see your point though

cloudynights

forgot to say, great bike
bugger to keep clean though

squid1969

NORTHERNSHAGGY wrote:

Charge Limited Edition Surface Spoon Saddle from evans would look mint on this £24.99

Good call,just ordered one for my X4

Lucozade1

Looks great, Nice Work.

The elixer R levers and calipers come in white with blue bits, my misses Antem came with them, they would look top banana on it.... 8)

njee20

I can't see you'd ever get the skewer coming undone from there, but it is waving about, parallel to the fork is best IMO, straight up.

Lucozade1

njee20 wrote:

I can't see you'd ever get the skewer coming undone from there, but it is waving about, parallel to the fork is best IMO, straight up.

2nd that