Chinese Carbon 29er Pic Thread.

[MTB2223]

Nice bike, Steve! And nice decals. How did you make the 'Specialized graphics' ? Is there a font-type available ?

And a nice blog you have. When I'm having more time, I'm going to read you blog completely.

[hidperf]

Nice bike, Steve! And nice decals. How did you make the 'Specialized graphics' ? Is there a font-type available ?

And a nice blog you have. When I'm having more time, I'm going to read you blog completely.

Thanks! It's been a blast building it and riding it, although it's taken a toll on me. Several hard crashes and one broken collarbone. 

As for the graphics, I found a font that was VERY close to the one Specialized uses. I then took measurements of the areas I wanted graphics and sent those measurements, along with frame pictures laying out the areas where the graphics would go, some examples from Specialized frames, and the font to a vinyl graphics guy and he made them. I think they were around $60.00 including the graphics for the rims.

Thank you for the comment on the blog. I'm WAY behind on updates. I'm stuck on day 5 of the 7 day trip. It was a brutal day and I just haven't had time to write about it. And I've had so many more things happen since that trip ended, and so many changes to the bike as well.
I should start on it now before the weather breaks and I'm out riding again. 

[lexicon]

036 purchased from Peter (xmcarbonspeed.com), 19"
Full XX1 drivetrain + SLX brakes
Reba 120 + Monarch w/ HH tune
Carbon 35 mm hookless rims hand built on DT Swiss 350 hubs



Internal cable routing, and I drilled out the rivets to remove the unused external cable guides from the downtube. All Mountain Style frame guard.



28t XX1.
35 mm Hookless carbon rims that I built up with DT Swiss 350 Hubs, tubeless.



SLX Brakes, with Problemsolvers Shifter mount.
Plain old Monarch R, but I installed the HH tune.



Almost all parts from German online sites.

[Oolak]

^^ Boom! VERY nice build, man. 23.4 pounds for a full suspension 29er is awesome. You built it up pretty much exactly like I would've right down to the DT Swiss 350s and the 120 Reba.

[Carbon_Dude]

Very nice IP-036 build!  Thanks for sharing pictures and your build list.

[trimansam]

nice IP-036 Build!

[byrt]

We need more photos!

[Viperdriver]

new bike.

[MTB2223]

Looks good! Hows the white paint holding ? no cracks in the corners ?

[Carbon_Dude]

Nice Chiner Single Speed!

[Viperdriver]

Looks good! Hows the white paint holding ? no cracks in the corners ?

The paint is really nice.  Holding up well so far.  Totally worth the $20 extra for paint, I could hardly have rattle-canned it for that.

[byrt]

Waited over 6 months of buying parts is finally finished!

[cmh]

Waited over 6 months of buying parts is finally finished!

• I didn't even see it at first, but didn't need the watermark to figure out you might just know your way around a camera. Gorgeous shots.
• Speaking of watermarks, thanks for keeping it understated.
• Bike looks great!
• Holy blinky lights. Someone wants to make sure he's seen, huh?

[byrt]

@cmh

Holy blinky lights. Someone wants to make sure he's seen, huh?

lol indeed! my biggest fear is that a car hits me from behind. I ride my bicycle everywhere and I'm just a bit paranoid! 
Thanks :-) Im pretty happy with it! very smooth and very light! coming form a steel frame!!!   

[Oolak]

Chiner glamour shots! Lol. Very nice looking ride Byrt.. So you're liking  it better than the steel frame, I assume?