Orange Ms Isle (Rebuilt September 2013)

Slight incident on Friday which resulted in me limping about the last few days.....

Luckily I was going slowly, but powering up a hill, out of the saddle.... Dropped like a sack of s**t!









Yesterday, I decided to strip my Patriot of its Saint cranks and put them on the Msisle as I use it daily and the patriot has not been used for a short while. Ill order some more saints after Xmas for the Patriot.

Jeez! never seen or expected that to happen to XT kit!

I have those cranks on one of my bikes!

Have they been abused - or "just riding along"?

was8v":2xaareo7 said:

Jeez! never seen or expected that to happen to XT kit!

I have those cranks on one of my bikes!

Have they been abused - or "just riding along"?

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Yes and yes.... lol!

They have had a hard life. But luckily at the time, I wasnt landing a jump or off a slight of steps etc.
Im also 16 stone and 6 foot 2 so I dont think they were built for someone of my frame to abuse them. Hoepfully, the saints are.

Wow! Never expected them to fail there! Thought the steel axle would be strongest bit. Hope the Saint's are stronger, expected Shimano to use same axle in all.

Re: Orange Ms Isle project.... (updated with powder coat pic

Well after 4 weeks of being used daily in bad weather, snow, rain, ice and road salt and then a 10 mile XC blast today in the muddy forest I had a bit of a tidy up, fitted some new pedals and a new tarty seat post.

The bikes looking much better, seriously need to bleed the brakes though, and true and tension the wheels!

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Can't believe wear your XT's failed...I've never seen them go there before.

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Nice build, I would like to do one of these or an AirO

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twellsie":1sr222ku said:

Nice build, I would like to do one of these or an AirO

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Thanks mate, im thinking about another build, a bit more XC based. Itll be an Orange of course. :facepalm:

Re: Orange Ms Isle project.... (updated with powder coat pic

Well this was beginning to get a bit worn and tired, thought about replacing parts, but there was that much that needed doing, I started looking for a complete new bike. After getting let down on a couple of orange crush's, I reconsidered rebuilding the MsIsle, and after looking in the spare parts box I realised I might not need as much as I first thought!

Stripped frame, degreased and marks/scratches polished out...





New headtube badge



Box of old parts



New zee chainring and crank protectors removed from cranks, degreased and cleaned up.



Wheels rebuilt with new spokes, trued and tensioned properly. Set of nearly new folding tyres out of the parts bin.



New pedals, KMC chain and SLX rear mech cleaned and degreased and hope jockey wheels added to replace the old (spikey) ones!



New fork, 120mm Rockshox Recon gold TK SL replaced the old, very heavy 150mm Marzocchi drop offs



Thomson stem, Thomson seat post and Answer bar taken from the parts bin.



Order from CRC/superstar including new discs, pads and adapters, new XT shifter, cables, grips, chain stay protector, seat clamp and a load of new bolts.



In the rebuild process





And this is as it stands now, the bike feels a lot lighter than before, due to the fork mostly but i guess the tyres, bars and stem and seat post helped too! And the chain device that was swapped from a fairly heavy blackspire DS1 to the MRP x1...

Really happy with it! Just waiting on some red hope skewers that haven't arrived yet.

Total cost of rebuild £350ish (ignoring what I paid for the bits in the parts box previously).

Very nice indeed. I am really tempted by the idea of these especially if I could find an 18" version.

May I ask how tall are you please? And what is the top tube length?

Many thanks