Dream bike build?

Ghostt

Bit of fun, unless I get weak at the knees and unleash the cards/sell a kidney...

Post up your dream bike build. No budget limits, bike type, can be anything you like.

To get the ball rolling:

Santa Cruz Nomad C Frame, green
RockShox Monarch Plus/Pike RCT3 (Both 2014)
Enve AM rims laced to Chris King Hubs, Minion DHFs tubeless
SRAM X0 2x10 drivetrain, silver and black
Hope Stealth Tech EVO V4 front and rear, V4 vented rotors
Enve Downhill bars, Easton Havoc stem orange, King headset orange
Reverb Stealth

Comes in at about £8330! Need to find a local bank with poor security...

bennett_346

Nice idea. Let me think about it first 8)

The Rookie

Frame - the not yet anounced Pivot Mach427.5 carbon
Forks - 120mm RS SID 650B (when available) 15mm
Wheels - Enve 650B Carbon rims, .0/1.7/2.0 spokes, hubs DT swiss
Drivetrain - XX1
Brakes - Formula the one
Components - MT Zoom carbon (alloy stem)
Saddle - Bontrager Inform RXL (from my Kraken)
Tyres - Maxxis Beaver

bennett_346

Ok, i think i have a list:

Frame - Carbon S works stumpjumper FSR frame with a kashima float RP23



Forks - 150mm Revelation World Cup



Wheels - American Classic All Mountain



Drivetrain - Sram XX1



Brakes - Shimano XTR Trail



Tyres - My s works ground control have been brilliant so far so i'd stick with them till i found something better.



Seatpost - Reverb
Saddle - Has to be a charge spoon lol

DCR00

Trail bike - Transition Covert Carbon with BOS front and back, ENVE rims and bars, Reverb Stealth, Havoc Stem, CK hubs, either Ardents or Minions, XTR 1x10 and XTR Trail brakes

Downhill bike - Aaron Gwin's Carbon Demo

Shackster

Don't know about the components so much, but I seem to be obsessed at the moment with the ibis mojo HD 160. Actually I do know about the components as they are currently hanging off my much upgraded Canyon Nerve!

Honestly those curves on the ibis are just so....right, better stop there or embarrassing things will happen. Again.

pesky_jones

Mine would just be the s-works demo carbon team replica with its spec, not that I would be able to put it to anywhere near its capabilities ha

gt-arrowhead

This or this really. Fuck it, its a dream, ill have both!

bennett_346

This is about a dream bike build, not a dream bike!

gt-arrowhead

I would have listed the spec for either one of those bikes anyway! Probably the GT Fury (First pic) but i dont know the full spec. But anyway, ill try my best.

Limited Edition GT Fury Atherton Racing frame
Shimano Zee drivetrain
Boxxer World Cup 2013 forks - In red
Chris King headset
Full red Hope brakeset
KCNC Red Jockey Wheels
(dont know any good wheel makes really) But superstar hubs, they look nice
Raceface SixC carbon bars
Hope direct mount stem
Every single bolt, crank bolt, brake disc bolt, frame bolts - ALL IN RED ANO
Superstar pedals.

Tom Barton

Santa Cruz Tallboy Ltc
Fox 34 CTD Kashima
Sram XX1 setup
Stealth Reverb
Enve carbon rims on Chris king hubs with hans dampf tubeless.
XTR anchors
Easton Havoc carbon bars
Filled in with some tarty colour coded hope/chris king bits for the parts i've missed

All in - approx £8200 *sigh*....

supersonic

The Zaskar I have, but with an upgrade to XTR shifters and those silly light plastic inner tubes.

bennett_346

There must be something else on it that you would upgrade if money was no object?

supersonic

Not really. It all rides very well, good strength to weight, would like better shifters (and maybe tyres). Or a ti axle for the pedals lol.

JMcP92

I think this may be relevant to those of you wishful thinkers:



And I imagine you wouldn't mind one of them links:
http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2013/04/0 ... ike-build/

Barrelmaker

Frame: Mojo HD
Fork: Probably a Pike
Shock: CCDB Air
Rims: ENVE on King hubs
Drivetrain: XX1
Brakes: Probably Hope M4
Then to finish off, Reverb, Spoon Ti, King headset, Easton Carbon Bars etc etc

But........I would probably just spend the money on an XX1 Santa Cruz Bronson in Tennis Yellow

fyldesmurf

let's kick thing up a notch:

Frame Evil Undead:

Forks: DVO Emerald, I have literally no idea if they're any good, but they are green



Shock: Cane Creek Double Barrel (Ti Spring)



Wheelset: Mavic Deemax Ultimate



Saint Groupset

Nukeproof finishing kit

and of course superstar nano pedals 8)

Noice

felix.london

bennett_346 wrote:

Ok, i think i have a list:

Frame - Carbon S works stumpjumper FSR frame with a kashima float RP23



Forks - 150mm Revelation World Cup



Wheels - American Classic All Mountain



Drivetrain - Sram XX1



Brakes - Shimano XTR Trail



Tyres - My s works ground control have been brilliant so far so i'd stick with them till i found something better.



Seatpost - Reverb
Saddle - Has to be a charge spoon lol

Sweeeeet!

hahaha..unlimited money and Charge Spoon still rears it's head!

felix.london

Something based around this;

Yeti SB66 Carbon



and this;

Rockshox Pike RCT3


...would be amazing

The Rookie

felix.london wrote:

Yeti SB66 Carbon

Isn't that fundamentally just an expensive copy of an Orange 5?

lawman

The Beginner wrote:

felix.london wrote:

Yeti SB66 Carbon

Isn't that fundamentally just an expensive copy of an Orange 5?

Have suddenly moved to the planet Zarg or something?! How on earth is that even remotely like an Orange 5?

rockmonkeysc

I wouldn't dare add up the cost but I know exactly what I want

Intense M9 frame in raw finish (raw is a pound lighter than painted!)
CCDB coil shock
Marzocchi 888 RC3 ti evo fork, 2012 model (better damper than 2013)
Enve carbon rims on Chris King hubs
Chris King headset and bottom bracket
Shimano Saint transmission
E thirteen cranks with Renthal chain ring
E thirteen LG1+ chain device
Enve carbon bars and seat post
SDG saddle
Thomson direct mount stem
Shimano Saint brakes
Shimano DX spd pedals

That should do the job.

lawman

RockmonkeySC wrote:

I wouldn't dare add up the cost but I know exactly what I want

Intense M9 frame in raw finish (raw is a pound lighter than painted!)
CCDB coil shock
Marzocchi 888 RC3 ti evo fork, 2012 model (better damper than 2013)
Enve carbon rims on Chris King hubs
Chris King headset and bottom bracket
Shimano Saint transmission
E thirteen cranks with Renthal chain ring
E thirteen LG1+ chain device
Enve carbon bars and seat post
SDG saddle
Thomson direct mount stem
Shimano Saint brakes
Shimano DX spd pedals

That should do the job.

One of the lads at uni has an M9 with Fox 40's Saint group and XT brakes and it is very very nice, saw a few at Stiniog yesterday as well. A carbon one would be stunning!

The Rookie

lawman wrote:

Have suddenly moved to the planet Zarg or something?! How on earth is that even remotely like an Orange 5?

Single Pivot?

rockmonkeysc

I don't like 40's, they just don't feel as nice as Boxxers or 888's to me. The alloy M9 frame is expensive enough, I wouldn't like to think how much a carbon one would cost.

lostboysaint

I have mine. Every time I think about changing or "upgrading" various bits on it I realise that I'm just fiddling for the sake of it. It was my dream project and it became my dream bike. It's got a lot of stuff on it that people won't care for or is easily "upgraded" (XT to XTR etc.) but it's brilliant as it is.

Having said all of that, I'm very seriously thinking about plugging some BOS Devilles in the front.

pesky_jones

The Beginner wrote:

lawman wrote:

Have suddenly moved to the planet Zarg or something?! How on earth is that even remotely like an Orange 5?

Single Pivot?

I may be getting confused here, but is it single pivot? What is classified as a pivot?

felix.london

The Beginner wrote:

felix.london wrote:

Yeti SB66 Carbon

Isn't that fundamentally just an expensive copy of an Orange 5?

I don't think so :?

rockmonkeysc

Are all single pivots the same??? I thought they can feel hugely different to ride.

The Rookie

They can (and these are different), it was a bit tongue in cheek, but as I understand it the Yeti is still an SP design for suspension arc despite the link piece used to drive the shock (which just effects progression).

lawman

The Beginner wrote:

They can (and these are different), it was a bit tongue in cheek, but as I understand it the Yeti is still an SP design for suspension arc despite the link piece used to drive the shock (which just effects progression).

Tongue in cheek maybe but completely ill-informed!!

The eccentric is essentially used to alter the axle path and leverage rate without infringing on DW-link or Vpp patents, which it was so close to infringing on Santa Cruz actually tried to sue Yeti over the use of the switch system.

The eccentric performs the job a lower link in a twin linkage system would other wise do. So while technically it is linkage actuated single pivot, really it isn't because of the rotation of the eccentric the lower pivot point is constantly changing.