MOUNTAIN BIKE FRAMES

This is a typical cross-country mountain bike frame. It is meant to be taken in the woods, exploring trails, or just regular riding in the country. Of course, many cyclists use it in the city or for touring (with narrower slick tires) because they prefer a mountain bike to any kind of 700c bicycle, and in this kind of use it will be better than other types of mountain bike frames like freeride or downhill. Unless, of course, you are into urban assault or other variations of violent riding. In that case, you will find any regular cross-country frame will not resist to the kind of stress that comes with repeated impacts. Companies don’t give warranties against that sort of abuse no matter how much emotion you can come up with after the fact. For the very simple reason that the death of the frame occurs through no fault of their own. Although this might not surprise you, some people have the impression that warranties are meant to cover a wide variety of aggressions, including high-speed collisions, high jumps, or simply lending your bike to someone who soon will not be your friend anymore…

 It will be faster than other variations of mountain bike frames because it is less upright than a freeride frame and less overbuilt than a downhill monster. The angles are typical of modern cross-country frames and the tubeset is a pretty straightforward round oversized aluminum shape with a brushed finish in natural unpainted colour. Many people like this shiny metallic appearance. The downtube has a gusset near the head tube for strength in case of collision.

  Seat collar size is 31.8 mm and seat post size is 27.2 mm. Front derailleur is a clamp-on 31.8 mm. There are no disc brake mounts and weight for a 16 inch frame is 1.93 kilo (4.24 lbs). No fork is included and as is customary with this kind of frame, the geometry has been designed for use with a suspension fork and the fork column size is 1 1/8.

PRICE :200.00 $CAD, FORK NOT INCLUDED.

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