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The frame looks really nice but I have to admit I stopped reading when I saw "Super Boost". I get it for certain full suspension builds, but for a hard tail? No way.

Getting it running again was the plan, but the dust keeps settling on it. My wife would love to see it wheeled out by any means necessary, but I don't want to see it scrapped when someone could do something ridiculous with it instead like Gambler 500 or gut it for autocross.

Catahoula Ergonomics saddles are made in Missoula, Montana and have quite a dedicated following from what I've heard. Cyclocross pro and TrainerRoad employee Ivy Audrain raves about them quite a bit.

As far as grips--I think Ergon or SQLabs may have a grip that is made in Germany.

Sweet car! I've got a rusty 2002 325xit manual that has been languishing in my garage for 5+ years. It had the dreaded coolant leak the day after I replaced the water pump. Luckily the coolant line blew as I was pulling into my driveway so there was no time for engine damage.

Something that I learned when I owned this post was that if your shock pump has ingested any fork oil in the past, a small amount can be transferred to the seat post when airing it up, and it will eventually contaminate the friction surfaces inside the post on the mechanical brake it uses to lock in position. The result is that sitting down hard on the post can make it let out a squawk and drop an inch or two. I eventually passed along the post because of this. I weigh 140 pounds, so I don't think that was the issue.

Yes, the Magura adapters do work with Cura levers. I actually used the Wolf Tooth Magura adapters for my dropper lever. I tried the same thing for a set of Dominions, but that did not work without some questionable modification on my part.

Weren't some people calling that Upduro?

I owned that bike in the sweet 2013 tinted clearcoat version. I don't recall it having much clearance beyond the 29x2.4 Ardents I had on it. Was the 2014/15 different? It sure looks the same in the photo.

In my opinion the new 350 hubs have made the new 240 hubs kind of pointless. They have the original two-piece star ratchet that is more reliable than the new one in the 240, and the weight has gone down within a couple grams of previous generation 240. I do miss the engagement of I9 Torch or 1/1 that I had previously, but in my case I haven't felt like it held me back.

My hands ache just looking at those SRAM grips in the first picture. Truly the worst grips I've ever used.

My experience has been that the machined xd cassettes last so much longer than the pinned cassettes that they are actually cheaper over time. This been primarily with 11 speed XX1 cassettes.