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Cheers man, all good info. So no hanger extender needed? No spacers for the crank arms either? Yeah Cantilever look sweet.

Awesome, looking to do something very similar with a Hawk Hill. Any chain line issues? Did you change the headset? What wheels did you use and why cantilever over v-brakes?

Ok awesome, thanks for the help. So BB will be BSA English threaded, that's what I was hoping to go Hollowtech. Went from square taper to used modern Tiagra on my Gravel bike and love the new cranksets and BB's. I'll check out if it's a freehub with a cassette or a if it's shite wheels and a...

Hi, A friend of mine wants to do up an old MTB, I've built my own road and gravel bikes in the last few years but I've never built up a MTB. It's a Cromo Marin Hawk Hill, I'd like to turn it into a 1x10/11 by getting a used modern shimano partial groupset (crankset, cassette, rear deraillieur...

that certainly looks like it'd handle most stuff you could throw at it! I'll check out prices here but finance is tricky as I'm self employed. Good idea though. On the cyclocross tip, does this look ok? https://translate.google.com/translate? ... inio-XL-57 translation (dodgy) by google...

Yeah £100-£200 for the frame, then monthly about £100 on bits till it's finished. As for new, yeah I've looked at lots of stuff, but over here it seems I'd have to part with at least €500 for something decentish (I admit to having little clue what decent is). Whereas used, and older I'm...

Re: I like the idea of the cyclocross I think, should be faster over the tarmac than a mtb but be able to handle the more rustic stuff? Any suggestions on what sort of makes/models I should be looking at? I have absolutely no idea where to start, I'm on here because I thought something that...

So I guess to make that as fast as poss on the road, I'd go for a 29, skinniest rims possible and a tyre with low rolling resistance that can handle some loose stuff every now and again? My only doubts with this is that like I said I'm 90% on tarmac (albeit the sketchy potholed Italian variety)...

Hi, From not being massively into bikes I now ride about 600km a month to get to and from a job. I live int eh Castelli Romani in the country and to avoid the truck ont he main road I have a few options down the lanes, it's hilly, one of the options is gravel with a ouple of km of muddy tracks...