Giant Anthem x3 with lots of upgrades!

scratchy27

My Giant Anthem
It gets very well used and handles everything i throw at it from xc races to weekends away to Afan, Brechfa, Coed y brenin etc....tho i do put on a shorter stem and a Rocket Ron 2.25 for the Wales trips
As quick as mates on Orange 5's Treks ex 8's and Spesh Enduros on the downy bits in wales (bottom out the suspesion tho) and thrash them all on the uphills

Let me know your thoughts about anymore upgrades....








Frame: Giant Anthem x3
Forks: Fox 32 F100 rl
Bars: Easton monkeylite nt
Stem: Giant connect 100mm
Grips: Specilaized xc
Bar Ends: Easton ec90

Front Brake : Hayes stroker trail
Front disc: Ashima airotor 180mm
Rear Brake Hayes stroker trail
Rear Disc: Ashima airotor 160mm

Shifters: Sram xo
Front Mech: Shimano xt
Rear Mech: Sram xo

Seat: SDG bel air rl
Seat Post: Easton ec70
Seat Post Clamp: Hope

Cranks: Shimano xtr 960
Chain: Kmc x9-l gold
Cassette: Sram pg980 9 speed 11-32
Pedals: superstar mag lite cnc
Bottom Bracket: shimano

Front Wheel: xtr 975
Tyre: Nobby Nic 2.25 tubeless

Back Wheel: xtr 975
Tyre: Racing Ralph 2.1 tubeless

Weight : 24.8 lbs [/img]

chrisjnr19

I love those colours, It looks bloody great!

How are you finding the Ashima's, very tempted by those?

scratchy27

Thanks Chris!

The Ashimas work well and are very light but i haven't used them in Wales yet!
Reading reviews of them before i got said that they don't suit all brake calipers and you can get a 'pulse' feeling when braking.

I sometimes wish i had got the floating xtr or xt rotors instead tho :?

sheepsteeth

looks nice, your front tyre looks like its on backwards though. is that a deliberate thing or am i wrong (this does happen on the odd occassion!)

scratchy27

I just checked the front tyre and i'm glad to say it's on the right way

I have got this wrong before :oops: .......more than once