650b steel hardtail build

Time for a new do-it-all mountain bike.

Frame, wheels and trick-bits to follow...

Those are some nice bits. I'll be watching.

That's a lot of nice bits. Rare to see Thomson bars.

Frame is here. Just need to build the wheels now...

this is going to be rad, looking forward to seeing it built.

looks proper nice, is the frame just lacquered over?

Yeah, It's a matte, clear powder coat.

Just finished building the wheels...

Damn, this is cool, think I'll build a MTB with a On One frame aswel this summer orso, so it's ready for autumn/winter in the Netherlands.

I'm really liking the 'stance' of this frame with the Pikes in. Can't wait to get it built up and ridden now!

I really like this bike.

Still waiting for my chainring to arrive from Wolf tooth components, in America, but had a free hour this afternoon, so built the rest up.

Really pleased with how it turned out. Just can't wait to get the chainring so I can ride it!

This is awesome! Love the colour, can even stand the decals (and I hate On-One logos). Look forward to seeing it complete and covered in mud.

looks great!

not tempted by a dropper post?

I've been riding a couple of bikes recently with dropper posts, and to be honest don't really get much benefit from them, for the type of riding I do. This is partly due to my lankiness, partly because I'm alright at descending, and mostly because I'm not going to be hitting any super gnarly downhill stuff on this hardtail anyway. I just wanted to keep it simple and clean, I suppose.

This photo of me on my rigid 29er xc bike kind of demonstrates my point.

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dropper posts are crazy money and never worth it. hard tail pure and simplezzz

Are droppers simply meant to be a timesaver?
Oh yeah, this is giving me a gunmetal grey boner by the way, it looks incredible.

they are a suspension seat post. perhaps i'm being to sceptical though, they just cost so damn much.

if your'e riding more gnarly stuff that requires a lowered saddle then they make sense,
hold the button push the saddle down with your weight than return to stand over height, Once you've finished the gnarly stuff hold the button and your saddle returns, brilliant but pricey bit of kit!

Used my friends giant 140mm fully to ride some xc and downhill tracks on the same day, on a bike like that they make a lot of sense!

I was dead against them, but would be tempted for one for my Corsair. being able to drop the saddle on the move on that bike would be great, and they seem to be getting more reliable (early ones were not). Problem is I don't want another cable clogging up the handlebars but very few companies seem to have under-saddle levers any more.

ah right i thought they were a rear sus alternative. that does sound pretty useful. but fair enough^

I think thomson's new post can have an under-seat lever

I was in a particularly unspectacular part of Wales a couple of weeks back and everyone and their grandma had them. There was nothing technical or demanding in terms of changing landscape, but for some reason, everyone was constantly moving up and down.
I understand they have a need and correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you're cycling competitively, getting off a bike for 2 seconds and slamming your saddle does the same thing non?

Find my dropper - a cheapy CB joplin - very useful for jokes trail riding on my 26" 160mm hardtail

Miss it when I get on the short travel XC bike. It's just ace to be able to get the saddle out the way at a moments notice.

Of course if you have the madskills you can achieve the same effect with a QR and your thighs...

This build is most ace BTW. Very nice.

I was in a particularly unspectacular part of Wales a couple of weeks back and everyone and their grandma had them. There was nothing technical or demanding in terms of changing landscape, but for some reason, everyone was constantly moving up and down.
I understand they have a need and correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you're cycling competitively, getting off a bike for 2 seconds and slamming your saddle does the same thing non?

I rode the quantocks last year and the route we took begged for a dropper, lots of technical descents followed by steep climbs, If i had the dropper post I would of been able to carry the momentum into the climb instead of getting off and raising my post, they just make it more easy really

Really awesome man! Now I'm really thinking of one of those on one 650b's as my next project.