What do you do when your Blur LT gets lonely ? (Upgraded)

Frodo1095

Get it a pet of course
Here is my new Santa Cruz Chameleon





Frame is a medium black Chameleon.
Lopes chain guide with an FSA 32 tooth front chainring.
Most of the other parts are bits and pieces from other bikes.

Will slowly upgrade bits and pieces to get exactly what I want and hopefully have it running 1x10 by the end of the year.

Frodo1095

Been enjoyiong riding my hardtail so much I decided to update and upgrade it ready for a dirty winter of fun.









Frame - Medium Black Santa Cruz Chameleon
Fork - Rock Shox Revelation 140mm
Headset - FSA
Stem - Truvativ Race 75mm (-6 degrees)
Handlebars - Easton Haven Lo Rise (711mm)
Grips - ODI Ruffian
Rims - Stans ZTR Crest
Hubs - Stans ZTR
Tyres - Maxxis Advantage 26 x 2.1
Mudguard - Mucky Nuts Bender Fender 2.0
Brakes - Elixir 5 (185mm F, 160mm R)
Shifter - SRAM X7
Chain Guide - MRP Lopes
Cranks - Blackspire 7 AM (32T ring)
Cassette - SRAM PG - 1050 10 Speed (12 - 36)
Read Derrailleur - SRAM X9
Seatpost - Nukeproof Warhead Layback in Yellow
Seat - WTB Rocket V
Pedals - Shimano M647

Hope you like

sheepsteeth

that seat post is gopping.

jacob2910

:shock: seat post .............

Frodo1095

It looks brighter in the pictures than it does in real life, just fancied doing something a bit different to liven it up.

jay12

thats looking really nice but the seatpost is out of place

toby_winkler

I quite like the seatpost, with a few more hints of yellow (grips, pedals, hubs etc) I think it could look really good.

Frodo1095

Toby_Winkler wrote:

I quite like the seatpost, with a few more hints of yellow (grips, pedals, hubs etc) I think it could look really good.

Thanks Toby.
I did look for some yellow grips but they didnt have any of the Nukeproof ones in Yellow and ODI Ruffian dont come in yellow.

Have been thinking about spraying the white part of my rear derraiileur in yellow to tie it in and could possibly dismantle my pedals and respray them yellow as well. Not certain about the pedals as I use them on my Blur LT as well.

toby_winkler

They have got the Yellow Nukeproof ones on CRC:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=42094

And Superstar do yellow ones as well, a lot cheaper, but obviously wouldn't be as good a colour match to the Nukeproof ones:

http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_ ... cts_id=277

jrduquemin

Is that the carbon or aluminium Haven bars on your Chameleon?

Dick Scruttock

jrduquemin wrote:

Is that the carbon or aluminium Haven bars on your Chameleon?

Looks like Alloy, my carbon haven has a different look to it than that one.

jrduquemin

Rick Draper wrote:

jrduquemin wrote:

Is that the carbon or aluminium Haven bars on your Chameleon?

Looks like Alloy, my carbon haven has a different look to it than that one.

Are the carbon Havens worth the money?Debating whether to go for the alloy model due to the cost. Currently running Monkey Lite XC carbons on my Blur LT

Frodo1095

Yes the havens are alloy not carbon, really liking them thus far.

heavy_rat

Whats that little mudguard behind the forks? Is it any good?

Stoo61

Muckynuts bender fender. I have them on both my bikes. Generally stop bigger lumps of dirt hitting you in the face. You're still going to get wet.

cat_with_no_tail

Stoo61 wrote:

Muckynuts bender fender. I have them on both my bikes. Generally stop bigger lumps of dirt hitting you in the face. You're still going to get wet.

This, I leave mine fitted all year round, as it does help you not to get sheep/cow/dog shlt all over your face when riding.
When it's really wet though, I also use a crudcatcher downtube mounted guard which keeps the worst of it off you.

Frodo1095

The bender fender does seem to stop most of the stuff coming up into your face when you are shooting along, but as others have said you will still get wet and dirty, but isnt that part of the fun