So I picked up one of the Nashbar X frames and I want to keep things cheap and easy (I'm that way sometimes). Since this is a cross bike, I'm torn between going with a road group set or a mountain group set. The bike will primarily be used on pavement with the occasional excursion on mountain fire roads (I'm thinking some of the ski resort fire/service roads in the summer).
I loooked for a few hours last night and I can find a ton of road kits, and a ton of mountain kits but no real 'cross' oriented kits :madman:
I started building up a set (Sugino Swiss Cross Crank, SRAM cassette, etc.) but then my head started to hurt mostly because I was making something into rocket science that shouldn't be, and it was running up the tab pretty quickly. I don't want to spend that much on a $100 bike frame.
So this morning, I woke up, refreshed, and was thinking....should I go with a Shimano 105 group set (for about $700) and change the chain rings on the crank - possibly change out the cassette as well or should I go with a Shimano XT Groupset for about the same price? Does anyone know of any "cross kits" or "cross groups" out there? Looks like Nashbar used to have one but it's not listed anymore.
I loooked for a few hours last night and I can find a ton of road kits, and a ton of mountain kits but no real 'cross' oriented kits :madman:
I started building up a set (Sugino Swiss Cross Crank, SRAM cassette, etc.) but then my head started to hurt mostly because I was making something into rocket science that shouldn't be, and it was running up the tab pretty quickly. I don't want to spend that much on a $100 bike frame.
So this morning, I woke up, refreshed, and was thinking....should I go with a Shimano 105 group set (for about $700) and change the chain rings on the crank - possibly change out the cassette as well or should I go with a Shimano XT Groupset for about the same price? Does anyone know of any "cross kits" or "cross groups" out there? Looks like Nashbar used to have one but it's not listed anymore.