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Yes, based on that description, it’s a 19″ frame. With a picture, many sharp eyes on this board (including me) would know for sure. I was hoping it was a 17″…
Interesting. My HG4B has a S/N that begins with 98, but it isn’t on that price sheet. It also is only shown in the ’99 catalog, not the ’98, as I recall. Those prices are amazing. Bikes have gotten more expensive in some ways, but in many others they haven’t. $5000 will still buy you a decent DH/AM machine these days, and those prices for the XC machines are still in line with quality items today.
As far as I knew, there are two kinds – aluminum and mag, and I thought they are interchangable for geometry but not brake mount style. Where is the size difference on the aluminum ones, assuming there is one?
That part has 16 hours of labor in it, plus the cost of materials. Factor in the time needed to make another set of custom bolts and you have a part that would cost literally $2000 if quoted as a job. Most definitely not a mass-producable part on my friend’s equipment. He’s a friend, so I got the super-special deal. : ) (Plus he moved away…)
The user named “Baulz” was working on a different alternative over at the MTBR forums, but he hasn’t updated lately. Heck. Baulz might even be here at the Tomato.
Thanks, guys. The rear shock adapter is v2.0 after the first unit made of 6061 failed (as I knew it would, it just happened sooner than I thought). I failed to mention that this setup requires custom bolts to attach the trunnion to the swingarm. It’s not the most future-proof design, but it’s working for now.
The best part about the bike/build is that I’ve ridden several new bikes at various bike demos that we have here, and as much as we all like to have a new bike, none of them made me think, “Man, I gotta shell out the cash to upgrade.” Yes, I have probably $1600 into this bike, but even some of the $8000 bikes I’ve tried weren’t *that* much better that I’d want to shell out the dosh. The biggest things I’ve noticed is new bikes have better rear triangle lateral/torsional stiffness, and the Fox RLC forks are nicer than my R. However, most bikes aren’t as plush as this one, and I’m a plushness fan. My next build will have to be something completely different, so it’ll be a 29er full squish. Just have to hoard cash for a while. 🙂
My 1998 HG Sweetspot Carbon has the 22mm disc mounts on the rear. I used an A-Z Products DM-UNI to put discs on mine for a while.
http://www.a2zcomponents.com/02products_04adapter_05.html
Here is mine on the bike:
It got the job done for a reasonable price, but it had one fatal flaw that made me nuts. The design cannot support braking backwards. You might think (as I did) that this isn’t a problem. The problem is if you get hosed on a climb, which I do quite a bit since I have weak legs. You go, you can’t go any further, you grab the brakes to stop from rolling back down the hill, and now you yank the thing away from the swingarm. You then spend the next few minutes with your tools fixing it instead of riding. I was going to make a support arm that bolted to the 22mm bosses, but I took it off and put on a vintage 22mm Hayes instead. Never finished the bike, though, so I haven’t ridden it like that.
Installation was relatively straightforward, but I had to machine the support foot down to clear the weld at the rear dropout. You don’t technically have to do this, but I wanted the neater installation of having the support foot flat against the dropout instead of on the peak of the weld.
