SSMTBs

Oof yes

wow they're nice, are the ardents in the top pic?

EDIT: yes they are

They look lovely. Particularly like how the Niner fork works with the bottom one.

Is it camera angle, or does that fork on the top one look a bit too long?

Have I posted another hub-geared bike :-)

Ok ooups 8^)

Excuse the Readers Wives.

On the look-out for a Niner fork for autumn/winter slop.

Nice. Didn't realise this bike had changed hands again.

yerp, it's fun. Maiden voyage today. There's a creak somewhere, I suspect the dropouts, hopefully I can silence that with some titanium hardware and more torque.

hopefully I can silence that with some titanium

Not something I ever thought to hear.

Nice Kona. Can't work out what dropouts it has though?

tumbled across that while browsing google image for trickstuff's eccentric bb, vertical sans derailleur hanger most likely

vertical sans derailleur hanger

Hacking the mech hanger off an old 853 Explosif is definitely a bit of a puppy kill.

what santa cruz is that? would probably look good with sus and 1x11

Highball alu

Is the go to budget build still the on one inbred? Any other options I should look at?

Is the go to budget build still the on one inbred?

Pretty much :-)

Glad nobody cut the derailleur hanger off of this one!

New Trek Stache @stedlocks