Carbon 456 aka 'the dark destroyer' all built

Seeing Chris put his up, thought I'd follow suit, to see where our builds go...

Bought this over Christmas, and thanks to it being a clearance frame, it cost me next to nothing. Great service from on-one, and it was received well packed..




Managed to get some cheap RS revelations last week, and I now have a Hope mix n match headset on its way to me, as I'd heard a lot of bad things about on-one's own smoothie mixer headset..

Trying to keep the build cheap, and robust, so wheels are Deore hubs on x317's. magura martas will be slowing me down, conti mtn kings making me roll and on-one bars and stem to try and control the beast.

M95* gearing to maintain the grey balance with the decals, and a 1x9 set up to break me in gently. Will up it to 2 or 3 x9 in the spring/summer.

Lovely looking frame... What great taste you must have

You two having a race on who gets there's built first?

Get it done then!

Mine won't be complete by the weekend, gotta wait for a couple of bits n bobs to show up first..

Tyres....



Maybe 2.0 was a bit skinny, but I'll run with them til they need replacing.

... And all fitted up to the x317/Deore wheelset...

... And these are a revelation..



They're Revelation RL's, but that's about as much as I know... Standard QR dropouts. Anyone know what model year they are?

Ooo all coming together!

Nice choice of goodies I think (although as you say 2.0 may be a little narrow).

Wish my headset was here...

Blimey that's cheap!!!

Hehe... Wife text me about an hour ago that a chain reaction box had arrived... That'll be my headset then