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Just contributing to another thread, I've realised how much my bike has changed in the last year. This is my Meta about this time last year.
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And now:
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Apologies for most of the pictures being poor quality. How much have yours changed?
My Five has changed into two bikes.....a Clockwork 29er and a Whyte M109!
And both new bikes have changed with a combination of changes including wheels, tyres, mechs, brakes etc.
new pads front and rear
new tyres front and rear
new seat clamp
new headset
new bb
new casette
new chain
pedels changed from mallets to egg beaters
new cables
bar possition changed
new top cap
so not much realy
Was a green 06 Enduro elite - pretty much as it had been for 4 years before I got it
Now, candy blue, fox 36 rc2 instead of 09 pikes, 1x10 instead of 3x9, front end wider and stem shorter, hope m4 brakes, new back wheel and all bearings / bb / hs replaced
Front wheel and saddle haven't been changed tho
Not as much as it should have, nothing exciting but in the last 4 months done both mechs, cassette, chain, rear shifter, middle chain ring. Wished I'd gone with the urge to go 10spd in the spring as I've now got fully functional 9 again.
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Based on everyone listing parts they've changed, I'll speed things up and list what I [i]haven't[/i] changed.
Seat clamp
Steam
Frame/Rear shock
Headset
Brakes
Everything else, brand spanking new!
Went mental this year, have had two new frames, replaced a Demo 7 with a Makulu and a Spicy with an Ion 16. Bar a few bits that had to change like BBs/headsets/rear hub/crank, etc, the components all stayed the same
Based on everyone listing parts they've changed, I'll speed things up and list what I haven't changed.
Grips
Front wheel
Frame/shock (shock rebuilt tho and frame coated)
Saddle
Cranks
Triggers bike, IMHO
Mine changed from a SS rigid 29er Kona Unit to an Alfine hubbed front suspension 26er Genesis io id. The change was not of my making, but insurance has its uses.
Different:
Wheels size
Tyres (Conti vs Maaxis)
Front suspension (Recon gold vs. On One rigid carbon)
Gears (Alfine vs. SS, but planning on SS again)
Colour
Brakes (Shimano Deore vs. Avid)
Same:
Contact points (ergon grips, carbon seatpost and Flite Ti saddle)
Geometry (60cm VTT for both, similar angles)
Material (both steel)
My bike is somewhat of a Triggers broom.
This was two years ago a couple of things change since this photo, cranks and brakes.
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This was a month ago but the drivetrain was worn out so now has SLX 1x10.
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From this and this
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To this and this
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Mav not built up yet, but very excited as I've been after a Durance for years!
Maintenance rather than upgrades for me this year: DIY fork (x2) and aircan service, chains (x3)cassette and chainring (x1), rebuilt 2 worn rim brake wheels with new rims and brake pads (x4) only! I nearly fitted new grips on the yeti but then I just turned them over a bit so the rubbed off bits are out of the way.
Still shocking how much it cost me just to keep the bikes running unchanged/un-upgraded though, bearing in mind I always keep an eye out for cheap spares/consumables and buy when going cheap, not when urgently needed, and that I have not needed to pay for a bike mechanic to do any of it.
But I did buy a whole new-to-me (8 years old) road bike so I don't feel too un-upgraded. 😀
Both bikes (fs and hardtail) have new frames and forks.
Bullit w/Boxxers to a Voltage FR30 w/55s (gonna be changed for Lyriks if I ever get my bmx sold)
Charge Blender w/Pikes to a Chameleon w/Sektors.
I wish I'd kept the Blender & Pikes tbh, that setup just felt right.
Continental tyres (Rubber Queen / X-King) to Specialized (Purgatory / The Captain).
Forca Vario dropper to a Reverb.
Forks dropped from 150mm to 130mm.
Various switches between 760mm flat bars and 740mm risers.
Ragley Cheeky saddle to a Charge Spoon.
Azonic Outlaw wheelset to a tubeless Flow/Superstar Switch setup.
BB7s to XT brakes.
Last August it looked like this...
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Then changed to this last December.....
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And then a drive train, drop post, tire and rear shock change later now looks like this...
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I feel there may be more changes by next December
Mine went from a Nicolai Helius CC and a Kinesis FF29 to a Giant Anthem X1 29'er and a Boardman CX Team
My Tri bike now has Di2 and a disc on the back.
My road bike now has Di2.
Just need to fettle some electrics onto the MTB 🙂
Cheers, Rich
My Nicolai hasn't changed at all (apart from consumables)
My other bike has changed from this
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To this
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Changed quite a lot this year on my 2007 S-works Enduro: -
- Replaced my e150SL front fork with Bos Devilles
- My AFR shock has been swapped for Bos VIP'R
- Rovale wheel set usurped by Hope Hoops on Flows
- Just succumbed to desire for remote dropper post - so picked up a KS Lev to take the place of my trusty (and reliable!) Joplin.
It does ride a bit differently now...
Same bike, but due to maintenance/breakage I've changed:
Fork, freehub, crankset, 2 rear mechs, 2 cassettes, 6 chains, dozen brake pads, 3 rotors, seatpost, muckynutz, 2 gear cables and 1 outer, 2 sets of pedals (now back on Shimano after CB's), 1 front tyre, 2 rear tyres, rear hub bearings.
A lot of rocky miles.
I've changed my 20T to a 21T rear cog on occasion, oh and taken the winter tyres off and stuck some new ESI grips on, ohhh yeah changed cranks to XO's.
It has a new downtube and no wheels, bars, stem gears, cranks, forks etc... 😉
In the past year the Marin Attack Trail has become a Blue Pig X;
Fork upgraded from Pike to 150mm RCT3 Rev.
Tubes lessened (tubes to rimstrips, now duct tape and crossed fingers),
Mud XR, then ADvantages, now On-One combo,
Brakes upgraded from previous to current XT,
ODI Crosstrainers replacing Ruffians,
Erm... and now rolling around the Peak instead of Brighton/South Downs!
On my trusty Soul:
X-King to Rubber Queen on the back (for winter but stayed on all year)
Hope QR skewer to Superstar 10mm QR bolt-thru on the back (stiffer)
X9 shifter to Saint (broken)
X9 mech to Zee (jockey wheels worn out)
11-36 SLX to 11-36 XT (worn out)
Hope 32t to Works 34t (worn out)
New chain (rotating three X10Ls now)
Fork service with SKF seals
Organic to sintered M4 pads (worn out)
N-gear jump stop to Hope chainguide (broken)
Truvativ to Zee cranks (broken)
Full-sus currently on order and then Soul brakes and drivetrain are going on that and Soul is going singlespeed. But not yet!
Purely aesthetic for me, new fork decals and de-stickered the wheels, oh and ODI lockons. Just got new pads, a brake bleed last night and re-indexed gears last night.
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Erm... and now rolling around the Peak instead of Brighton/South Downs!
Hello! Goodbye! When did you move? Where in the Peak are you?
Zesty:
New frame (warranty)
Changed from Formula Mega to Deore brakes
Changed Gravity Dropper to to Reverb
XT cranks for XT cranks (after stripping splines).
Canyon 29er:
Changed DT Swiss forks to Rebas
Changed bars to Nukeproof wide flat bars.
Changed front tyre to Nobby Nic, rear to Rocket Ron (after putting hole in previous RaRA rear)
SS 29er
Changed XT cranks to Deore (XTs went to Zesty)
Road bike
New Lenzyne bottle cages
New chain
From this...
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Transferred the Stans wheelset and Rev fork from my Giant over to the Evil and dropped some weight
Chain, Hope chainring and cassette
ESI grips
Erm nothing, my Camber Expert 26er is still exactly as brought, just has some paint missing in places, i don't count the pedals as it didn't come with any.
Bought my 2011 Genesis Core 30 from Winstanleys about a year ago, since then have changed:
Grips (Clarks lock on)
Pedals (Wellgo MG1)
Seatpost clamp (Hope QR)
Rear QR (Hope)
Forks (120mm Reba's)
Tyres (Spec. storm control)
Front Wheel (Mavic EN521 on Pro 2 Evo)
Bars (Fatbar Lite)
Seatpost (Thompson Elite)
New front rotor (180mm)
and........
Replacing Octalink BB/Cranks with Deore next week.
By the time I've got a new back wheel & cassette there won't be great deal left, but the bike was cheap as old stock and I should have some good kit to transfer onto another frame in the future.
Still really fancy a rigid steel 29er on fast rolling tyres for road/smooth trail use though....
Toss up between selling wheels & fork from this bike, along with flat bar road bike to fund one, or sticking left over kit from these upgrades on a cheap inbred frame....... 3 bikes may be pushing it.
If you change the frame then is it really the same bike? In my mind stripping the components from one frame to another means you have built a different bike.
My road bike is 6 months old and the only original parts are the frame and fork. It has gone from 105 to Ultegra to 11 speed Ultegra in that time. It isn't really the bike I originally bought IMO.
26" Anthem to a 20" Verde Spectrum 😉
If you change the frame then is it really the same bike? In my mind stripping the components from one frame to another means you have built a different bike.
I concur here, I can't help but feel like taking the frame away from a bike [i]is[/i] taking the bike away. New frame, new bike.
Hmmmm, mine is a parts bin hybrid and has been since 1990, I have swapped the frame 5 times and probably have no original bits left - perhaps it really is the triggers Broom of the MTB world - it's always been my only bike so the frame swaps are still changes to 'my bike'.
If you change the frame then is it really the same bike? In my mind stripping the components from one frame to another means you have built a different bike
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That's the one, with it's wooden frame and bristle wheel
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Which has become
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Only the bars, rims, front hub, grips and rear sprocket remain the same from start to finish.
Think I've washed some mud of mine at some point. Does that count?
My SX Trail became a Banshee Rune V2. Bits are mostly the dame apart from the bars which I changed (same bars different colour) and the grips (Renthals to Vans...not a good move). Am planning to add a Sram clutch mech this month.
My hardtail has changed a lot...from a GT Lopes 4x to an old old school Tazer (which cracked) to a Cotic BFe in XS. This has then had new forks (03 Z1's became 04 Z1's with a 20mm axle), my X9 mech became an X0, my trusty old school (5 bolt) Bulbs on D 321's were swapped for Pro II Evo's on EN521's, my ancient Azonic A Frames were swapped for Superstar Nano's and I added some orange Race Face grips. Final changes will take place this weekend when u swap the Deus XC cranks for some Atlas AM's with a Goldtech ring.
Not much then...
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to (bars, forks, stem, rear mech, saddle, tyres, chainset)
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Only really changed to 2x9, swapped my Marz 66 RC3 180mm to Lyrik RC2DH 170mm, Fox RP23 to CCDB Air, and changed from some 680mm alu bars to 720 carbon havens.
Next planned change is 11 speed.
Quite a few changes for me over the last year. My Intense has gone from:
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New wheels/tyres/forks/bars/grips and gone 1 x 10 with XT clutch mech and RaceFace N/W 30T chain ring...oh, and a paint job 😀
I've thrown some money at mine to drop it from the heavyweight devision to being more of an all-rounder.
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XX1, carbon rims/bars/saddle, custom tuned shock and fork.
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It was a great bike before but now its awesomez!*
*rides great but its a stranger to the sponge.
My Blue pig has had:
DMR V8`s to point one podiums
Avid discs to Hope floating rotors
A hub rebuild and new freehub courtesy of Ison 😀
A brodie holeshot Ti frame swap 
Which meant
a Cane creek headset was replaced by hope
an XT BB replaced by hope
Thompson seat post replaced by a Ragley spike
Since then its also had
Rear Juicy 5 replaced by XT Brake
Ragley spike seatpost replaced with a Lynksey Ti post
Brodie seat clamp replaced by Carbon Ti QR
Specialised saddle replaced with Charge spoon.
Cheapo stem replaced with Thompson 50mm
Hone Cranks replaced with XT
New grips
New cable outers (To suit frame)
New PC991 chain
36t front ring
Next on the list will be carbon bars and a Clutch rear mech with mod to suit XO 9 speed shifters that are on there
Chiefgrooveguru, we're in Sheffield now. The riding is much harsher and not quite as convenient to squeeze in. I miss the ability to quickly blast a loop around Stanmer, but the rocky stuff here is refreshing. Sometimes it's like climbing on scree with big square blocks chucked in for fun and the descents don't have much in terms of corners (apart from the built stuff). It's making me consider FS again 😳
I pummelled a bar end cap right into my inner thigh, no riding for a while...
How's life? Which FS did you settle on? Solaris?
The bike I bought six years ago, I'm still using the spokes.
Anyway, in the last year, I guess I've done
new tyres on the regular wheels, & got a 'spare' set with DH tyres
brake swap
new seatpost (bent the old one)
If you change the frame then is it really the same bike? In my mind stripping the components from one frame to another means you have built a different bike
To a certain extent I agree but for some reason I still see mine as the same bike but with a different frame as everything else has stayed the same. Its different but not different enough for it to seem like a different bike. I suppose if I had changed the forks and wheels at the same time it would feel like a totally different bike, but as its just one component it feels like an evolution. It's a strange one.
Also forgot that I changed my M4's with a Mini lever (rubbish by the way) for Shimano Deore brakes.
The big bike also had new wheels earlier in the year...I swapped my NS Bikes hubs on XM321's for Easton Havoc's and I finally went tubeless (swapped my Maxxis Minion/High Roller set up for Hans Dampfs).
I've clearly spent far too much money this year in bikes! But at least I've ridden loads.
For my 29er, a bit - it's gone 1x10 is the main change. New saddle too.
A year ago:
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CX bike - new frame/fork so quite a big change I guess.
A year ago:
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For my other bikes, no significant changes
In the main there's nothing of note but then this:
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evolved into my Trigger's Broom:
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Which has changed wheels, tyres & saddle since......