If you keep doing this, you can wind up with some really hilarious sleeper bikes.
So, I've been following this path to its seemingly logical conclusion for the last 5 years - on a Diamondback Hardtail.
At this point, I now have a DB Overdrive that looks every bit the $900 bike I got it as, but is actually carbon (wheels, frame, bars, seat, soon to be cranks) everywhere, on Maxxis Aspen/RekonRace tires that let me keep up with roadies on pavement, has inherited a 130mm Fox vanilla stanchioned fork that now has a tuned FIT damper lurking inside, a Lev post, and DH (Atlas) flat pedals. For a long XL bike with 2.25" tires, its 24\# weight is remarkably good.
Yet for all this, it's primarily a bike trailer hauler... such is life.
Feb. 14, 2020, 11:20 a.m. - Tehllama42
If you keep doing this, you can wind up with some really hilarious sleeper bikes. So, I've been following this path to its seemingly logical conclusion for the last 5 years - on a Diamondback Hardtail. At this point, I now have a DB Overdrive that looks every bit the $900 bike I got it as, but is actually carbon (wheels, frame, bars, seat, soon to be cranks) everywhere, on Maxxis Aspen/RekonRace tires that let me keep up with roadies on pavement, has inherited a 130mm Fox vanilla stanchioned fork that now has a tuned FIT damper lurking inside, a Lev post, and DH (Atlas) flat pedals. For a long XL bike with 2.25" tires, its 24\# weight is remarkably good. Yet for all this, it's primarily a bike trailer hauler... such is life.