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Woop woop here's the bigger brother! Glad you're enjoying it mate and I can see you've upgraded the Groupset and brakes too? Looks stock otherwise, same as mine.
Views look similar to lovely Scottish scenery too...
I'll see what mine will run like once serviced adjusted and new cables. Shame I'm a SRAM guy, but...oh well. Shall control my spendings just now.
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I've generally just replaced parts as old ones wore out. When I got it (cheap off ebay due to terrible photos) it had some rubbish magura disc brakes which I got rid of pretty quickly and some budget shimano wheels where I stripped the rear disc brake mount touring in Scotland and had to ride front brake only for the week after. I suspect if I tried a more modern mtb it might seem a bit lacking, but it's worked well for most things I've used it for - here it is touring in Scotland, loaded down with unfashionable panniers.
The previous photo is just on the South Downs. Though weather was pretty Scottish.
ad441
Nice bike, I have the same one. Headshok has always worked pretty well for the kind of gentle MTBing I enjoy. Have got round servicing issues so far by not servicing it... assisted by not getting to ride it very often.