Here's the first dive into making the Hyper Explorer a solid and truly worthy XC/trail hardtail while keeping the build budget focused and still getting reliable and solid performance at the end. This should be a stage 1 out of likely three, with Stage 1 focusing on the bigger items to get going, Stage 2 likely to be drivetrain improvements, and Stage 3 is likely to be the finishing touches.
Hope everyone enjoys and follows along with the build, and also with the individual part reviews of some of the parts used, much like I did 10 years ago!
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