[Closed] What £6k dream build?

bore off with your upper class first world problems! 😀

Pick a nice frame, SRAM Eagle, top end brakes, new dropper and some nice pedals, that should cover 6k 😉

If not and you don't want long travel how about one of these
http://www.santacruzbicycles.co.uk/model/5010-cc

Or find someone who will give you 5k cash for it

Are you limited to certain brands?

Mikewsmith....I actually fancy a Tallboy CC or Hightower CC

Alex....not sure I think most are open to me, looking for carbon though

Sell the jeffsy and the cube, buy a real nice hardtail, and a SC Bronson or Hightower as your prize bike.

Custom built slack Ti 29er hardtail or

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There is a new HT coming maybe I think.... slightly longer travel more like the enduro guys are racing if that tickles you, if not I see Chris Ball is still riding what looks like the first release one I saw him on 18 months ago which must tell you something as to what it's like!!

Hightower CC would replace the Jeffsy but everyone I know who owns one (3 now) loves it to death.
Pivot Mach 429.

Or perhaps as you are happy with your current bikes, why not a beautiful CX bike. Absolutely love mine. Bought for winter, but now use it mid-week all year and for bikepacking.
Something like a Mason Ti Bokeh, or Mason Resolution (steel), or for 6K I guess you could go for something hand made like a Feather.

Well done on the win. Only you know what your dream bike is.

4 x Whyte T-130s.

Sell 3 and go on holiday with the 4th.

Disturbingly, after a bit of a google, £6k isn't enough for a 'dream build'.
But i'd probably go with one of these:
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Don't rush into anything and spend a while doing plenty of bike demos.

There's a still a lot going on at the moment, like the recent influx of FS 29ers with decent geometry.

If you're not a geometry geek then it's even more important to test ride bikes, as - just for example - two long-travel 29ers can ride totally differently with 15mm or 20mm difference here and there.

Spec a bike that will sell most as bits?

Sell and use the £6k on something other than a bike?

bigbloke - Member
Won a Facebook comp last night

Are you Hugh with hair? You lucky, lucky bastard 😀

Wow congratulations! Personally if it were me and you like the Jeffsy I would build up a high tower....alternatively If you really like your Jeffsy (I love mine) could you not blow some of the cash on upgrading it? Enve, fox, eagle etc? Then use the remainder to upgrade your hardtail?

If you're not a geometry geek then it's even more important to test ride bikes,

Rubber-Buccaneer....I am indeed Hugh with hair 😀

Alex.....Looked in detail at the Pivot it scores highly on paper but I don't like its looks (I know shallow etc etc)

Well done on the win - I listened in live with the hope one of my three tickets would get me something.....

Bike for the wife/partner?
Ebike, fat bike, Cx bike? Or all three?

Or why not see if foxy can get you a custom frame like a robot bike Co and swap your existing parts over - still leaving you 2k + for a second bike.

Personally I'd see if he could get a Nicolai Argon Fat Pinion (and some Blutos, ck headset) so I could transplant my current fatbike and then a 2k 'gnar enduro' bike for when I'm feeling frisky.

Nice one Hugh with Hair!!!!!! What about a Carbon Transition Scout, or a SC 5010??

Generally I think it's the geo geeks who could do with getting out of their spreadsheets more and riding some actual bikes

This is an equally valid point.

Personally I'd see if he could get a Nicosia argon fat pinion

It's a good job you didn't win then.

😉

Looked in detail at the Pivot it scores highly on paper but I don't like its looks

I'm with you. Pivots just look bland to me. Eye of the beholder I s'pose.

You already have a nice hardtail and bouncer. Are you road bike curious?
A nice Colnago C60 with Campag Record and carbon wheels should be about £6k.

1) congrats
2) £6K doesn't do a dream build, it gets off-the-peg pseudo-premium plastic or a folded filing cabinet
3) road bike

Sounds like you need a ridid bike to complement the other two, so a Ti Jones Spaceframe, or a Jones Plus 😉

A nice Colnago C60 with Campag Record and carbon wheels should be about £6k.

If it was me* i'd go to the Bird website and spec up a bike with whichever frame took my fancy (up to 3k) Then buy two of the buggers and sell them both for as much as i could get (transferable warranty is a BIG plus when selling a new, second hand bike).

*My current bikes are plenty good enough - as are yours

1. not road curious yuk yuk yuk tried it hated it

2. £6k is a dream build to me in my world

Liking the 5010/Hightower and Tallboy . Like Intense Primer too. Had a nose at an Ibis Ripley. Don't fancy Ti no matter how boutique it is 🙂 Going to have a coffee and a think, not averse to replacing the Jeffsy but seems a shame, however my HT beats me up a bit with my current back issue .

Save up another £2500 and buy one of those Epics on the home page.

It's a good job you didn't win then.

Pivots just look odd to me as well.....
Id be put off the Ibis Ripley by the video Foxy put up a couple of weeks back - the rear sus design just seems prawn to binding, especially in UK mud conditions.
Santa Cruz seem to be the default option now - a bit like Orange 5's were a few years ago. With a pie in the sky 6k build I just with the winners had more imagination, especially if you already have a half decent bike (hence my preference spend majority of the money replacing the existing frame only, leaving funds for a 2nd bike).

I've basically got mine, but I'd like to add a set of Carbon rims and XTR Di2 with the syncro shift and that'd be absolutley perfect, to be honest it's pretty damn good as it stands

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With a pie in the sky 6k build I just with the winners had more imagination, especially if you already have a half decent bike.

Don't get me wrong - I don't see anything wrong with SC. But if I were given 6k for a bike they're just not what I'd go with.
Mainstream doesn't mean 'better' either - smaller brands can compete on performance.

Pivots are much nicer in the flesh imo.
It's only on the full-side-on view that they look a little odd.
Superb attention to detail on their frames. The Firebird would be top of my list at 6K

At the risk of stating the obvious - your dream bike is your dream not anyone else's. I would look at the bikes you already have and list the things you like and dislike about them. Then order your priorities. For my last bike e.g. I knew I wanted more travel, enduro-and XC capable, light enough for hike a bike, and not 29er.
If the conclusion is that your love your current bikes, why not get the best, most saleable bike you can, then sell it and spend the money on something else?

Probably the new Robot Bike Co 29er, with a few littke geometry tweaks & some fancy suspension.

I think I would run out of money well before it was finished with £6k though & I wouldn't be using any carbon wheels 🙁

You already have a nice hardtail and bouncer. Are you road bike curious?
A nice Colnago C60 with Campag Record and carbon wheels should be about £6k.

Aye, if you chuck in another £4K too! The frames are £4K alone now post prexit exchange rate. Glad I bought mine when I did 😉

I wouldn't get an SC either, but not because of brand image - they just don't do anything that tickles my fancy (though I'm interested to see the rumoured Hightower LT).

I'd be trying out the Whyte S150, Orbea Rallon 29, new Intense Carbine, Starling Murmur, Geometron and considering a slightly modified (for my inside leg) Cotic Flaremax (with 2 pairs of top-end alu wheels, 29 and B+).

Probably the new Robot Bike Co 29er, with a few littke geometry tweaks & some fancy suspension.

I think I would run out of money well before it was finished with £6k though & I wouldn't be using any carbon wheels

Santa Cruz fanboy here. My choice would be a Pivot In a config that suits. Just got a Mach 429SL and it's brilliant. I get what people mean by the looks, I was the same, but it's much nicer in the flesh. Attention to detail is fantastic too. £6k would definitively get you an awesome build too.

Salsa Bucksaw

Whatever you decide keep your YT and Cube for a while you mighe prefer them to the new bike.

You could get an Orbea Rallon M-Team in your choice of colours with carbon wheels and a downgrade to the new DPSX2 shock for £5999 (I've spent too much time on the configurator)

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I'd be looking at a Geometron or Robot Bike Co for that money.

A geometron for riding chicksands?

Save up and buy a nice hard tail :p
https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/mtb/exceed/exceed-cf-slx-9-9-ltd.html
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Decent spec Bird and 3 weeks guided holiday in the Alps 🙂

Zerode Taniwha could be worth a look too, but only you can decide if it's too much bike.

A geometron for riding chicksands?

Yep! http://geometronbikes.co.uk/G13.html

A geometron for riding chicksands?

If you read the Nicolai thread, a 61degree head angle, 170mm travel bike is perfect for everything, poppy and light handling and def not overbiked even for Cannock or towpaths.............. 🙄

comes with a lifetime supply of koolaid too 😉

If you read the Nicolai thread, a 61degree head angle, 170mm travel bike is perfect for everything, poppy and light handling and def not overbiked even for Cannock or towpaths..............

I went with a Nicolai GPI 🙂 other than a few other niche brands I just can't believe there aren't more bikes out there with the Pinion gear box.

If your hardtail beats you up and you love the jeffsy, I would be tempted to sell the hard tail use that money to upgrade any bits on the jeffsy you don't like and then use the 6k to get a 29er hardtail that won't beat you up so much - some nice Ti Frame or a BMC teamelite.

Congrats by the way!
Doesn't have to be one bike - What about bikes for the Wife/Kids/Dog etc.?
The last guy got a FS and a CX bike IIRC.

I was thinking (if it was me...) I'd get a Transition for around £3k, and a CX bike, something for the kids and some Hope bits for my HT.

Olsen does some interesting stuff, semi-custom geometry etc.

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6k is definitely in my dream-build budget. I wouldn't be speccing anything at the XX1 level or probably even carbon (except maybe a Robotbikeco frame).

I'd be looking at a custom UK builder like Swarf to make a full-sus 29er with coil shock.

In the STW tradition of recommending what you've got, I picked this up on Saturday after demoing lots of alternatives. It's absolutely mega...

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I'd buy a Yeti, probably with deore for 6k 😉
Couldn't justify spending my own money on a frame costing that much.

Furious - Member
In the STW tradition of recommending what you've got, I picked this up on Saturday after demoing lots of alternatives. It's absolutely mega...

Also in the spirit of recommending what you have the Pivot 429sl is a great bit of kit that works well in a variety of environments.

Absolutely love mine, have had it more than a year and have no desire to change it (aside for possibly putting Eagle on it), but I can't quite be bothered with that.

Nice. Looks, how to I put this, a wee bit small judging by seatpost extension and stem length?

I'm 6' and it's a large. Stem is 50mm, seatpost was "as assembled" and before it was set up for me. It may be the angle of the photo but it may also be because it does have a really low top tube.

Is that the Red Bull dream bike comp? In which case you'll be limited to its sponsors.

I'm 6' and it's a large. Stem is 50mm, seatpost was "as assembled" and before it was set up for me.

Is that the Red Bull dream bike comp? In which case you'll be limited to its sponsors.

Im guessing the South Coast suspension raffle, now non raffle prize draw thing...Fair play for winning, I stopped entering when it became a competition where there was no limit to the number of entries that could be sold. As to me it ruined the odds, but i still like hearign of what people who have one picked

Furious....what is that

Furious....what is that

Pivot Mach 5.5

Furious....what is that

Dunno, but someone put toy sized wheels on it

My last two bikes have been an SC Tallboy CC and a Pivot Mach 5.7 Carbon. Both were great bikes, but for UK riding, the SC wins out as the bearings are sealed that bit better (albeit, not perfectly!) for UK conditions. I love the ride on the Tallboy - it's a super fast bike - but the short travel does limit its abilities on extreme trail-center stuff. That said, for the riding I do in the dales, I think it might be the perfect bike (for me, anyway :-).

Would also like a Pivot 429SL, obviously with DI2, but I'd never use two very similar bikes, so I'd probably just buy a newer road bike instead.

I could have missed it, but I haven't seen you name the sort of riding you want to do with it?

£6k would certainly get me a dream build!

Are you limited to certain bikes/brands? Who's doing the comp/build?

I could have missed it,

Yes, you did, as it was in the original post

Locally its Chicksands/Woburn or bridleway type trails.

Dunno, but someone put toy sized wheels on it

Arf!

If you haven't got anything nice to say 😉

Nice bike that Pivot.

Pivot....

Les Fat.

😀

I could have missed it,

Yes, you did, as it was in the original post

Locally its Chicksands/Woburn or bridleway type trails.

I saw those being quite different, so was looking for more. Lots of fairly burly FS bikes being mentioned, but is that really necessary for most bridleway type trails?

Lots of fairly burly FS bikes being mentioned, but is that really necessary for most bridleway type trails?

they're not necessary for Chicksands or Woburn either*, so I think we are violently agreeing on some of the recommendations being too much bike.

* my regular/local haunts, and despite having an Alpine 160** I've usually taken the fat bike to woburn, or now the new 120/130mm FS.

** for sale due to lack of use

not astroturfing.

lucky bugger. Is the guy making money off these then?

I'd sell the jeffsy and get something similar. Bit of money in the bank for riding and a nice bike to ride.

Or just get a bike that you'd like but can't justify because of cost.

After entering the same competition I was considering this the other day, not sure I would go for 1 bike, for £6K you can get a new Orbea Rallon and an Orbea Terra, both the lower spec versions but still more than capable!

i ride my 180mm dune at woburn, when i want to actually go, really, really fast!

When i want to [b] feel [/b] like i'm going really fast, i ride my c456 HT..... 😉

I'd get the exact frame, forks and wheels you want, you may not have much left afterwards.. then spec cheap parts up to the 6k value and upgrade from there out your own pocket .

That said, as long as you don't go silly on envy products, a 3k frame, 1k fork, will still leave 2 k for some very very nice parts.

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