I have a 99 quid steel MTB frame, decked out with XT/XTR and a £600 lightweight race fork. Mostly mid range Easton finishing kit and to finish it off, the heaviest non-DH wheels and tyres on the planet. (total wheel/tyre/cassette is something like 5.5 kilos)
It's still a cheap rubbish steel frame, and handles like it, but everything on it works really really well.
Life is too short to worry about stuff like this......
old steel frame conversion to new groupset
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