Raised chainstay frame on budget Trail Bike.

[Retrorockit]

I was in Dicks Sporting Goods and stopped to loook at the bikes. I saw one that had an interesting frame. I guess it's about a $500 MTB. Nishiki Colrado Pro 27.5. HT with 100mm Suntour fork amd 20mm axle I think..
The frame has a raised chainstay on the drive side. It comes with SRAM NX 1x11 setup 2.8 tires, and Techtro disc brakes.. But it loooks like it could go staright to belt drive.
https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p...hoCysUQAvD_BwE

[ncrkd]

Funny you should mention this bike - it does look very interesting for our nefarious purposes, at a great price and not a lot of waste.

Here's a clumsy BBSHD build video, using this bike:

How would you belt it - one speed with one of those cassette single speed conversion kits? Maybe the Sturmey Archer 3spd IGH cassette hub, like one of rider's BBS02 builds? If it were my build, I'd spend a little more and bump up the front rotor to 180mm and maybe a better mechanical caliper.

[Retrorockit]

The puny bottom bracket get's thrown away for a mid drive. A 29 er would be hard to get the gearing low enough. If I didn't already own 3 bikes i would have one.