So I just a carbon XC frame from my boss, it was his old racing frame, its just been lying around so he had no use for it so now I have it. I am mainly a roadie, so I don't know a whole a ton about mtn biking, but I am familiar with all the brands, and I have working knowledge of all the parts. I have access to used components from the shop I work in. So I was planning on running all xtr, besides the crank. I'm not sure what I will do for that, probably used at first, and maybe upgrade in the next year, what size of chain rings would I want though? As for the fork I will most likely get a new rockshox reba since I can pick on up fairly cheap with my shop discount. I am trying to keep this a fairly cheap build though since I just dropped 2grand on a road bike. Any suggestion?
Advice on building up XC rig
- Thread starter dirtyboy77
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scour the ridemonkey.com and bustedspoke.com classifieds for used parts.
Are you counting grams? If not combine XT and XTR components to save some money and off course take advantage of your employee discount.
cant go wrong with XT cranks. Mine have had a solid 4 years of beating on them. Depending on what you intend to do with the bike, i liked using a double for xc racing 42 -29 with a 11-34, got me up pretty much everything.
If going with a triple the standard rings work well.
If going with a triple the standard rings work well.