Not completely sure I'm willing to sell, but a good offer would make me consider

Built from frame up - Diamond Back Topanga comp frame, but that's the only thing standard on the bike.


Frame: Diamond Back Topanga Comp (20)
Wheels: Spinergy Xcyclone Disc (retail over $700 weigh below 1600 grams)
Tires: Slime Tubeless
Front Derailler: Shimano XT
Rear Derailler: Shimano XT 9sp
Fork: Manitou Black 100-120mm elite TPC
Headset:Cane Creek zero stack Aheadset
Stem: Answer Aluminum
Handlebar: Weyless Carbon Fiber
Shifters: SRAM attack 27 speed
Rear Brakes: Promax Hydrolic Disc
Front: Hayes mechanical disc
Grips: Lizard Skins
Seatpost: Forte Precision Carbon Fiber
Seat: Selle Royal
Crank: Shimano XT
Bottom Bracket: Shimano Octalink
Pedals: Crank Brothers Candy
Chain: Shimano HG91

Serious inquiries only

12/7/2006 3:21:14 AM

total weight is under 25 lb

bike mechanic owned and ridden once - it was really just a side project for me. Race ready

12/7/2006 3:23:21 AM

rear der. housing is too long

and i would hope that a "high end xc bike", especially a hardtail would weigh under 25lbs

12/7/2006 6:42:23 AM

try craigslist, the only bikes people buy on here are $100 walmart bikes.

12/7/2006 10:02:00 AM

the rear derailler housing is not too long. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. the pic is one that I took while building it, and there is no chain on it, which explains the angle it is hanging at. And for a non-carbon framed bike in a 20 inch frame size, being under 25lb is pretty damn good. It is still a high end bike - unless you honestly believe that in order for an XC bike to be high end it needs to cost more than a car, like the elite 9.9. But I built this bike for a rider my size (6'1 215-220lb), and compromising any further on the weight of the materials would have made it useless and ultimately dangerous for me to ride since things like ti pedals typically have spindles rated at a max 185lb

12/7/2006 5:47:45 PM

first off its not high end, its a shitty diamondback that you stuck some "spinergy" wheels on. whoopdee shit, spinergy....they made this wheel and had an ad where they bent the spoke and it went back to normal without breaking...those wheels are no longer made, maybe because they were a marketing tool, i could do the same thing to a trek 8000 which about 4 years ago came with pretty much the same parts such as the uber high end xt which last i checked was in the durable range, not high end, a high end drivetrain would consist of carbon and blackbox parts such as sram x-0 blackbox derraileurs and shifters or shimano xtr, i'll say the headset is ok just because its cane creek and those people are my homies and it is one of their better ones, but then again, every threadless headset made is a cane creek....promax disc brakes, good luck finding pads for those, if you have to order them, expect to go though bti which is a pain in the ass and you will have to order something else in order to get the $50 minimum and wait a week for them to get to nc....hayes mechanical disc suck even more because they are hayes and mechanical, the only mechancial brake worth a shit is the avid. your pedals are legit, crank bros are one good choice, in saying that, i'll go on and offer you $80. for it, because i could use some candys and the fork would go for maybe $50 on ebay.

btw, its not that hard to build a steel xc bike for under 25 lb, so you having an aluminum one with all these supposed "high end" parts as you call them is nothing special

12/8/2006 10:29:16 PM

umm, yes the housing is too long, you have what looks to be an almost 90degree bend in the housing between the rear top tube housing stop and the upper seatstay housing stop

that is too long, housings are supposed to "flow"....all yours is doing is creating that much more friction and if you want to start getting really techie....it adds weight, certainly not something your "high end" bike should have an excess of

as for the wheels, icanread pretty much hit the nail on the head. for $700 (spare me the "i worked in a shop so they didnt cost that much") you could have had a sub 1400g wheelset built up with more standard components that you could easily find if you need to replace them when you are away from your home shop.

slime tubeless...ill leave this one alone

also, such a high end bike would have pretty decent performing components, especially if it is "race-ready" attack trigger shifters are hardly considered at this level. if you'd like to argue, im willing to bet you havent directly compared the performance (which i may be waaaay off base by thinking that you would want the highest level of performance possible on a race bike) of the attack shifters to the other offerings of SRAM....trust me it doesnt have to be X.0, but even the x.7s are a far better feeling (crisper, more accurate) shifter

but what do i know, maybe missed/sloppy shifts are what make a bike "race ready"

*yes, i understand completely what a side project is, especially for a bike tech, i have three sitting in my house right now, i understand they are pieced together, blah blah blah

i also know enough to not call my $24 cruiser i pulled out of the trash and fixed up a "high-end, one off, custom lowrider"

12/9/2006 9:07:59 AM

12/9/2006 10:31:14 AM

seriously, what are you trying to prove? I put the bike up for sale, I didn't ask for a critique. do you randomly go through the automotive classified ads and call people to tell them what you think of the car they are selling? I honestly don't see where your animosity stems from, and if you think it's a piece of crap that's fine too. But you've expended a good deal of energy lashing out at me for selling an item.

and in defense of the shifters, I chose them because they are indexed the same as the shimano components they are controlling. I think you're absolutely right on the X.O, etc being high end SRAM, but the problem is that they are also SRAM 1:1 components meaning i'd have to swap out the deraillers too. the ones I selected saved me that headache because they use the 2:1 cable pull ratio that shimano uses.

12/9/2006 2:42:59 PM

$50

12/9/2006 2:50:08 PM

$53

12/9/2006 3:19:23 PM

Quote :

"I think you're absolutely right on the X.O, etc being high end SRAM, but the problem is that they are also SRAM 1:1 components meaning i'd have to swap out the deraillers too. the ones I selected saved me that headache because they use the 2:1 cable pull ratio that shimano uses"

uhh so get shimano xtr shifters or shit, the new xt isnt that bad...remember its best to keep a parts group in the family unless you actually are doing something badass with a sram/shimano mix

12/9/2006 5:42:50 PM

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"for $700 (spare me the "i worked in a shop so they didnt cost that much") you could have had a sub 1400g wheelset built up with more standard components that you could easily find if you need to replace them when you are away from your home shop. "

Well, I don't work in a shop. I work in the largest Mail Order Cycling company in the world's corporate office. I spent $70 on them and have a box of both drive side and non drive side spokes (spox) for them. So, you go build up something sub 1400 gram with replacement parts for 70 bucks and get back with me on that.

12/9/2006 11:31:28 PM

shit I'll go $75, as long as you throw the god damn tires away and............nevermind, if you think that that housing is right then you probably have no idea how to maintain a bike and I wouldnt want it anyways



nice front brake though you would have done better not to list some of those components

12/10/2006 11:19:43 PM