Best I have right now is a comparo to the RM that retired the Giant and took most of its parts, and a quite blurry (wow, phone cameras have come such a long way!) shot of it stuck in mud up to the pedals on one of its last rides. You can even catch a glimpse of the A2Z IS Disc Mount adapter*. That yellow beast took me far, and took everything (both new parts and crazy rides) I threw at it. I'll try to get some shots of the current build if I think of it.
*Despite the hose bosses specifically for hydraulic rim brakes, without a brake booster those ovalized seatstays were quite flexy even with just v-brakes. And though the disc mount was pretty janky, (for example if you grabbed a bunch of rear brake to keep from rolling back down a steep get-up that you just missed clearing, then the mount was likely to rotate backwards and pull on the QR skewer in weird ways), it was still worth it to get the consistency of a disc brake over flexy v-brakes.
Feb. 24, 2022, 7:59 a.m. - Justin White
Best I have right now is a comparo to the RM that retired the Giant and took most of its parts, and a quite blurry (wow, phone cameras have come such a long way!) shot of it stuck in mud up to the pedals on one of its last rides. You can even catch a glimpse of the A2Z IS Disc Mount adapter*. That yellow beast took me far, and took everything (both new parts and crazy rides) I threw at it. I'll try to get some shots of the current build if I think of it.  *Despite the hose bosses specifically for hydraulic rim brakes, without a brake booster those ovalized seatstays were quite flexy even with just v-brakes. And though the disc mount was pretty janky, (for example if you grabbed a bunch of rear brake to keep from rolling back down a steep get-up that you just missed clearing, then the mount was likely to rotate backwards and pull on the QR skewer in weird ways), it was still worth it to get the consistency of a disc brake over flexy v-brakes.