Custom Trek ex9 Pearl white build**** complete****

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cheers Ross bit of a personal touch to the frame
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bit of a maint day today stripped clean re heli taped and put back together
    Cleaning products

    Muck off
    Srp polish
    Ultimate detail
    And sum rim wax and megs tyre gloss

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Changed the brakes today to avid elixir cr carbon look a lot better than the juicy 7,s


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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Changed the saddle in favor of a charge white perch
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  • leaflite
    leaflite Posts: 1,651
    Nice!
    How long is that stem though-It looks huge!
    GT Hardtail
    The Apollo Project
    Titus FTM Carbon
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    leaflite wrote:
    Nice!
    How long is that stem though-It looks huge!

    90 mm stem buddy looks huge in white lol
  • leaflite
    leaflite Posts: 1,651
    raceface gt wrote:
    leaflite wrote:
    Nice!
    How long is that stem though-It looks huge!

    90 mm stem buddy looks huge in white lol


    Oh, right, it looks more like a 120!
    GT Hardtail
    The Apollo Project
    Titus FTM Carbon
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Quick update
    Purchased sum ashima rotor bolts in gold however I would be against using these for rotors as there to soft and they round of to easy,

    So the best use for these are
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pic of the ti bolts a lot better quality than ashima
    Awaiting the rest if the ti bolt finishing kit to arrive
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  • Zimmerman
    Zimmerman Posts: 10
    Very nice
    Cheers
    Zimmerman (Swadlincote)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Project 99% complete awaiting ti bolts and SRAM x0 shifters to complete the build,
    From stock the following been upgraded, basically every component :roll:
    Bars Easton ea70
    Stem easton ea90
    Grips kcnc Eva foam
    Shifters SRAM x0
    Brakes exilir cr carbon type
    Head set blue hope
    Head set washers gold hope
    Forks Sid rlt3 2012 in white
    Hope red qrs
    Hope floating rotors in red
    Rotor bolts ti gold
    Front mech shimano xt
    Rear mech SRAM x0 carbon technology
    Kmc gold sl chain
    Kcnc blue jockey wheels
    Seat pin carbon race face
    Seat qr hope blue
    Saddle charge spoon white
    Crank xtr
    Peddles Cnc Outland
    Rear shoc rp23
    Carbon rock guard
    Custom decal
    Bottle cage bolts ashima light weights gold bolts
    Wheels hope Evo 2hubs on dt Swiss spokes on mavic 717 xc rims
    Rubber swalbe racing Ralph's Evo
    Bonty inner tubes
  • mtwindowcleaning
    mtwindowcleaning Posts: 57
    Very nice
  • M Velo
    M Velo Posts: 79
    Nice bike sir :) but why dint you change the front rotor to 203mm or 200mm and the rear one to 185 or 180mm rotor. I think this might improve your braking power and also make the bike even more beautiful.
    Custom build Trek MTB
    Madone 6.9 => Madone 7series
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Saving on weight buddy that's why I went for 160mm all round
    Lol
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Update latest upgrade complete for now unless a newer xtr crankset comes available

    Any way brand new xo shifters just waiting on sum new gold shifter blades
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    Also gold end crimps
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  • Tintin rize
    Tintin rize Posts: 262
    No where near done matey ;)
    Cannondale RZ 140 (WIP) (24.35lbs ) full suspension
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Could'nt resist sum carbon bling on the front end to go with the xo shifters and the avid cr's
    So bought sum race face next risers
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    Build done now I think wanting a carbon frame now tbh
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Seen this last nite bnib so couldn't resist
    Also changed the BB
    Pain in the arse to fit shimano should of stayed with the old style set up.

    Ti bolts should be here within the next 7 days once on the bike complete,
    Heli taped the crank arms to preserve the etching
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    From stock the following been upgraded, basically every component
    Raceface next riser carbon
    Stem easton ea90
    Grips kcnc Eva foam
    Shifters SRAM x0
    Brakes exilir cr carbon type
    Head set blue hope
    Head set washers gold hope
    Forks Sid rlt3 2012 in white
    Hope red qrs
    Hope floating rotors in red
    Rotor bolts ti gold
    Front mech shimano xt
    Rear mech SRAM x0 carbon technology
    Kmc gold sl chain
    Kcnc blue jockey wheels
    Seat pin carbon race face
    Seat qr hope blue
    Saddle charge spoon white
    Crank Xtr m970 + Xtr BB
    Peddles Cnc Outland
    Rear shoc rp23
    Carbon rock guard
    Custom decal
    Bottle cage bolts ashima light weights gold bolts
    Wheels hope Evo 2hubs on dt Swiss spokes on mavic 717 xc rims
    Rubber swalbe racing Ralph's Evo
    Bonty inner tubes
  • emseens
    emseens Posts: 146
    One good reason to ride flats?

    Nice bike by the way.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Pain in the ars* to fit shimano should have stayed with the old style set up.

    They have gone back to it on the current XTR.
  • Welsh_Wizard
    Welsh_Wizard Posts: 84
    That's well smart, fair play!!!
  • mikeyj28
    mikeyj28 Posts: 754
    Lovely Bike!!

    One question: what have you done with all of the parts you've taken off?
    Constantly trying to upgrade my parts.It is a long road ahead as things are so expensive for little gain. n+1 is always the principle in my mind.
  • EH_Rob
    EH_Rob Posts: 1,134
    Another question - have you actually ridden it?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    mikeyj28 wrote:
    Lovely Bike!!

    One question: what have you done with all of the parts you've taken off?

    Cheers for your comment most have been sold on
    I've still got sum dt Swiss wheel set that needs selling :D
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    EH_Rob wrote:
    Another question - have you actually ridden it?

    Yeah it's been ridden rob, however after every ride it gets stripped cleaned decreased greased and polished including wax (OCD) lol
  • bonezy
    bonezy Posts: 129
    Red, blue, gold, white, multiple spec changes with very little time inbetween...Each to their own but not for me! Nice looking bike, but why the change from long travel Vans to SIDs? Does it feel much different to before? Surely stripping and degreasing after every ride does more damage than good?
    Whyte901
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bonezy

    Thanks for your comment buddy
    As for colors each to there own ;)
    As for the fork change SIDS are lighter and better, vans were to bouncy with no adjustment and went for 120mm changes the ride in favour I think also the SIDS can be adj to 100mm as well.
  • 02gf74
    02gf74 Posts: 1,171
    you really need blue hope disc rotors and blue rotors. then blue avid crs - not sure they come in blue though.

    apart from that, very pretty. saddle looks a bit agricultural - specialized toupe in blue would be ideal, albeit not as comfy.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited August 2012
    Cheers for your input 02GF74

    As for the cr's ain't seen any in blue, as for the rotors didn't want to put to much blue in thought headset, qr was enough
    So went for red to go with the qr swewers,

    Ti bolts have arrived gold type pics to follow awaiting delivery of some rocket rons Evo type to replace the Ralph's,
    Also ordered a set of mitchelin light weight tubes.
    Should shed sum grams

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