Said in utter jest, hoping you heal up and are back on the bike as soon as possible, but I think your current situation is lending itself to you having some very cool ideas for pieces Andrew, definitely a "silver lining" to the sidelining. :-)
As I said, cool idea, but I'm not an upgradsitis type person, I'm still quite happy riding 10spd with an extender cog to give me 13-42 and 67.5HTA is plenty slack for me. The only real thing I think would "need" upgrading to bring a bike like that more inline with today is wider rims _(for a trail bike, I think<i35 is plenty good for tyres up to 2.8")_ and updated damper and/or air spring.
_Silly me somehow deleted more than 1/2 my reply while editing, so will have to come back later and rethink/write it._
Feb. 28, 2022, 8:06 a.m. - Lynx .
Said in utter jest, hoping you heal up and are back on the bike as soon as possible, but I think your current situation is lending itself to you having some very cool ideas for pieces Andrew, definitely a "silver lining" to the sidelining. :-) As I said, cool idea, but I'm not an upgradsitis type person, I'm still quite happy riding 10spd with an extender cog to give me 13-42 and 67.5HTA is plenty slack for me. The only real thing I think would "need" upgrading to bring a bike like that more inline with today is wider rims _(for a trail bike, I think<i35 is plenty good for tyres up to 2.8")_ and updated damper and/or air spring. _Silly me somehow deleted more than 1/2 my reply while editing, so will have to come back later and rethink/write it._