Oh great and knowlegable forum...

[mjc506]

Reet. My hack bike got nicked just before christmas, and I managed to get £300 off the insurance peeps. Out of that, I need to replace my bike light mounts (which I'd bought new a week before, bastards)  which'll be around £20, lid, another £20, which leaves £260. Using that, I'd like to get another bike.

I'd like a hardtail that will do xc, but is strong enough to thrash around a bit. The only full bikes I've found for that money are, frankly, shit, so I could either get a 2nd hand hardtail, or get a frame that I can swap stuff over to... thing is, I've got 170mm forks, and fairly wide wheels/tyres, so I'm struggling to find any frames that'll take that without snapping. Ideally, I'd get frame/headset/crankset/front mech/shifter for £260, that can take standard qr rear wheel, 2.5" tyres, and 160ish mm fork.... any ideas? Or am I just best off getting a whole bike?

[Big Red S]

You have two of these. Which one do you want to keep?

[mjc506]

Gash. It spat a nasty error at me when I posted this one, I didn't think it survived... ermm... I'll keep this one plsthxby

[Mike Skinner]

can't help, but i do like the topic title

[Trengot]

Wow this place is dead these days.

On topic, Any hardtail with 160-170mm forks is either going to have a ludicrously slack head angle normally or have a scarily sharpening angle when braking or going over anything.

[Parryman]

i have a 19" planet x hardtail frame i cold be tempted to sell.
its good for 150mm forks but could take more i reckon.

[mjc506]

Thanks, but I've run out of money now