This one was a pleasure to build, because well, it's mine. I previously had built an EMD9 but it's since been sold. I loved the frame enough that I just replaced it with an identical one.
For the first time for me, I decided to build it with a Shimano build kit. I spent some time chatting with some mountain biking friends who do some "real" riding, you know, in the mountains. The consensus was easy to gather: Shimano XT brakes are the best. I heard from many of them that XTR works just as well, but at a far higher cost.
Since I was going with XT brakes, I stuck with the full XT kit. Shifters, derailleurs, cranks, chain, and cassette are all XT. The fork is a Niner carbon unit, bars and post are also Niner carbon, the post is the RDO version. The stem is ole faithful, a 130mm Thomson X4.
Wheels were hand built Stan's NoTubes Crest laced to DT Swiss 240s 6-bolt disc hubs with DT Swiss Revolution spokes 3x and DT Swiss ProLoc brass nipples.
Price as built? $3700 out the door for a pure-bred race bike.
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