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    Diamondback Mission 2 new dumpster bike

    Rescued an old sad and lonely frame in the back of the shop left as a non-working donation. $175 later (a new low!). That was shop work on stuff I couldn't do ( extract post, service fork, etc) & 10+ hours of work later (cleaning, setting up, wrapping, tweaking various dumpstered parts to work) it's ready to ride.

    14.6 kg-32lbs. 170 front/160 rear. 650b

    Came with bike
    - frame
    - RaceFace stem
    - RaceFace handlebar
    - Marzocchi fork
    - RaceFace cranks (worn out 34t)
    - Stuck KS post
    - RaceFace wheels

    Dumpster parts

    - RockShox Deluxe rear shock rescued from bin
    - Maxxis and Schwalbe tires (dumpster finds- set up tubeless)
    - NSB 30t ring
    - Oneup seatpost
    - XO1 shifter
    - XO1 derailleur rescued from trash + pieced together from another old derailleur
    - Code RSC brakes rescued from trash. Bled + found old rear brake line from dumpster
    - WTB seat
    - Shimano pedals
    - KMC chain
    - ISCG chain guide

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    Last edited by LeeLau; 08-01-2024 at 08:53 AM.

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    Might be the best dumpster bike ever. Nicely done! Where is it going next?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jono View Post
    Might be the best dumpster bike ever. Nicely done! Where is it going next?
    Not sure.... some deserving trailbuilder but it's a bit on the small side now plus I've got to thoroughly test it just in case I messed up the ghetto build. Basically no rush

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    That bike deserves another life. Nice.
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

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    That is sick, dude. How many speeds on the rear, and what's the cassette?
    Show us the other side and stuff?
    No longer stuck.

    Quote Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn View Post
    Just an uneducated guess.

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    Damn that looks great, someone will be stoked
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    DiamondBack's "level link" rear suspension actually works really well. I had a Release 27.5 with it -- nice bike overall, geometry needed a little updating, especially reach.
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    Put another $80 into it by replacing the dumpstered 170mm OneUp with a 200mm Iridium.

    Scrounged a free ISC chain guide

    Friend of mine destroyed his older DT Rear wheel and was put of his bike for 3 weeks so I loaned him the original dumpster wheel from this bike. Took his wheel, rescued an old indestructible DT EX 511 rim from a pile and did a rebuild. So the 2nd dumpster wheel which will be a spare for him and meClick image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn View Post
    That is sick, dude. How many speeds on the rear, and what's the cassette?
    Show us the other side and stuff?
    Original dumpster wheel is a RaceFace Vault Hub with what I'm told is a HG driver and 12 spd HyperGlide NX cassette. I don't have the wheel as it's been loaned out. I scrounged a Vault XD driver and have a XO1 knockoff from AliExpress bought during the Covid parts shortage that I used like 10x. It was $ 50 and did its job. The Vault hub is creaking and I'm told there are bonded halves which can come separated ever so slightly and creak. Will try some green loctite on it when I get back. If that works it brings the bike to $ 300 which is still reasonable

    This second also free dumpstered wheel now on the bike has a dumpstered Shimano Deore 10 speed that I've managed to tweak to work on all gears except for 6, 7 which slip when torqued...it'll do for now

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    Sweet looking ride for someone fo sho. Red frame and fork makes it extra rapid!

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