Perspective I guess.
My buddy welded me my current 27.5 hard tail, but it wasn't a value job. All told, the frame was $1K (a pretty good deal for custom). The fork that went on it came to me as second-hand (Fox FIT 160mm), and after serving me 3 seasons of hard riding on the dually, it got an air spring upgrade and dropped to 150mm for the hard tail. Entire Shimano 11spd group from ebay for about $400, but swapped the cassette for a steel 11-46 from Sunrace. Built up some beefy carbon rims from Light Bicycle, on old but trusty 100x15/142x12 hubs. New post from One-Up, because yeah, I want all the drop. So there you have a top-performing rig, with all the big-ratio, carbon wheel, super drop action you could want, for a pretty reasonable deal. So with some diligence, you can have your cake and eat it too, to some extent.
Nov. 30, 2021, 2:48 p.m. - Mammal
Perspective I guess. My buddy welded me my current 27.5 hard tail, but it wasn't a value job. All told, the frame was $1K (a pretty good deal for custom). The fork that went on it came to me as second-hand (Fox FIT 160mm), and after serving me 3 seasons of hard riding on the dually, it got an air spring upgrade and dropped to 150mm for the hard tail. Entire Shimano 11spd group from ebay for about $400, but swapped the cassette for a steel 11-46 from Sunrace. Built up some beefy carbon rims from Light Bicycle, on old but trusty 100x15/142x12 hubs. New post from One-Up, because yeah, I want all the drop. So there you have a top-performing rig, with all the big-ratio, carbon wheel, super drop action you could want, for a pretty reasonable deal. So with some diligence, you can have your cake and eat it too, to some extent.