Qebrus’ Rides (Belfast Offroading All-Terrain Club) Boat Club

Been lurking for far too long since leaving the big smoke and moving to Belfast 2 years back. I haven’t had any major steed changes in this time. I originally used some parts bin components to build up a lovely 16” Kona Lavadome, when I initially moved to commute run errands.

The bike handled great, albeit it was on the small side. I used this for a good year before meeting a mechanic down the LBS who kindly gifted me some frames he was off loading. Within these was a Trek 930 Singletrack XC. I decided to swap over the parts from the Kona onto this. being 1 1/8” threaded initially, I had to run some less than ideal bars due to not owning any other 25.4 clamp.

I did really miss the Kona the first few weeks of the Trek, having definitely been too small it felt like more of a big wheeled BMX and now I was very planted on a correctly sized bike with very narrow bars which handled with way less twitch.

Looking through the parts bin again I found the holy grail. A 1 1/8” threaded to threadless adapter. Now firing the Bullmoose bars back on the bike did start to handle a lot better and I was definitely getting used to the bike now.

Fast forward to last month. The threads on the fork had given their last tighten before heading to the thread graveyard. My guards were cracked in about 4 places holding together with a few trusty zip ties. And the wheels needed a good true and cup cone service. I was also wanting to take the bike on more adventures so the singlespeed gearing was starting to make longer rides a chore.

Deciding that the frame was something I now really liked I took a step back and actually thought about what I wanted on the bike.

The letters ATB had been on my mind and that was the perfect acronym for what I wanted the build to be. More grip on the tyres, more gears and a few more mounting options to boot.

A few purchases later and the build list currently stands at.

Trek 930 Singletrack XC
Middleburn RS7 / UNO 32t Chainring (Thanks @Maj )
Nukeproof Neutron Pedals
KMC X8 (Waxed with Squirt lube)
Shimano 7 Speed 13-32t
Mavic x221 Rims to Deore LX rear, Formula front (Thanks FB Marketplace £10 pickup)
Avid SD 1.9 Levers 2.0 calipers
Koolstop MTB pads
Stridsland Barnacle Lite Raw
Dia-Compe CB2 Headset
Nitto Bullmoose
Oury Lock ons
Maxxis DTH 26x2.15
SKS Bluemels 26x60mm

More updates to follow.

*Edit order of photos isn’t correct 😩

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