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Originally Posted by Northendzone
To me that bike looks acceptable for what you are thinking of doing with it.
Surprises me that a bike that is less than $1,500 is equipped with xt, but maybe these days there are more levels of shimano stuff?
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I am thinking the compromise is the fork. The fork is usually what drives them out of reach.
So, I got my totally neglected mountain bike out for a nice long ride today. I will admit when I bought it a few years ago it was an impulse buy. Just loved the matt finish, but the compnoents kinda sucked, and that is probably why I hardly rode it. The 6000 frames though are bomb proof, so I figured it was worth a pretty huge upgrade to take it from run of the mill Trek 6000, to a pretty capable hard tail. Upgrades included:
- OEM crank swapped out for Shimano SLX.
- Ritchey carbon seat post and Easton Monkey Lite XC carbon bars.
- Upgraded cable disks to Elixir 5 hydraulics.
- SDG Bel-air seat.
- Swapped out Dart 3 fork, for Rock shox recon 335 air fork.
Didn't look like this after my ride was done today...lol. But A clean mountain bike isn't a mountain bike.