Project 25 Merlin Works 4.0 Ti Full suspension bike

[pieterp]

Very good wheel choice, the Olympic rims work very well with yellow tape, sealant and Schwalbe tires.

[Hi|ikus]

Just a word on the Industry Nine wheels. 3 months ago I received my Industry Nine Ultralite wheel set. They weighed in at 1380g, I've ridden them the same as I would any XC wheel (the same as my Hope Pro2 w Mavic XM719 rims) and they have proved absolutely faultless. I'm 93kg riding a hardtail on xc trails. Thoroughly recommend them.

[Adri]

Adri,

regarding the bottle cage: try a King Cage (as suggested by mpap89 as well) I have one myself and they are the best! 28g, holds 750ml bottles over the worst terrain, expensive, I know a source in Europe. Many pros (Sauser, Frishi, Platt, Paulissen,...) ride them for a reason.

I'm looking into those King Cages.. first I thought Chris King but then I found these..

http://www.kingcage.com/Home.html

PM me your source ?

[Adri]

Received this picture today of the build that is nearly finished.. still waiting for the Thomson Elite seatpost.. but we ordered it from Thomson direct now.. so ignore the black seatpost.. and the tower on the stem has to be shortened as well...

[Swannie]

Why don't you take a shadow xtr rear derraileur?
very nice bike (except the stem, looks too big)

[Adri]

Of course height of stack will be adjusted once the build is finished and I had a chance to ride the bike.
No idea about the shadow XTR , I just took what I'm happy with, which is a medium cage reverse action XTR

[caballero]

Beautiful looking bike, theres just 2 things i would change

* The bar/stem to a standard setup like f99 and duraflite etc...
* The gold headset to a blue one to match the blue on the decals

Other than those to me it is A1 !

[Adri]

Both were on my special demand so I will certainly not change them
All my bikes have golden CK's and the Morati M-bar had to go on this bike?

[Adri]

Bike was delivered today.. first pics will be uploaded HERE soon.
At 10.9kg/24 pounds its lighter than anticipated, which is obviously a good thing.

[marecej]

nice to see another beautyful ellsworth
what about black fork? would suit it better

[smithy1.0]

Apart from the bar/stem setup, I like that, good job!

[bbtheory]

Glad to hear the bike met your weight goals, that is always a pleasing thing! The build looks great too, isn't Ellsworth the bomb ??? Seriously that is one nice bike, the M-bar has grown on me now that I see the final build. Still don't know about the gold king headset but if it is a "trademark" for you, then I'll let it slide

I agree about the fork, but is that a WC model that is only in white?

[marecej]

if it is wc, you can always change lowers from team, they are the same

[$mokeyJoe]

Very nice A d r i! Very nice! And the weight also. That for a Ti full-suspension.

The Mbar is not my kind of stem that i would chose, but that makes us all different! It's just aesthetics. About quality i won't argue!

Now i'm looking forward for some of your great on-field pics.

[Adri]

The Morati bar won't work. I can' t get the position right, mainly due to the fact that the stem length is only 110mm.. I knew from the start that it would be tricky..
So it has to go back into the box... or onto another bike ..
I got myself a Van Nicholas/ Hi Light 120mm / 5 degrees / OS / 146g titanium stem and will probably put in either a Race Face XC Next SLti reinforced carbon bar or an Easton EC-90 flat bar.
Any ideas on either of those bars? They look like the only carbon bars out there I want to trust with my life.. Perhaps the Syncros is also an option.
Some pics of the stem can be seen here :