Group B Rally Inspired
The new Autosport mag arrives in the post for my Dad. I wait patiently for him to hand over the free poster and I run excitedly to my room to add it to my wall of 90s race cars.
One such event gifted me a “double pager” of the eye-melting MG Metro 6R4.
This simple memory of a poster on a bedroom wall inspired me to build a bike in the spirit of the MG GroupB beast (without the 3L Williams engine and without the 410bhp and without a roll cage etc but we’re splitting hairs).
The brief was simple, build something:
With 6R4 livery
That was as light as possible
With mixed wheel sizes
Custom Ohlins suspension
All in the detail
This wasn't as straight forward as bolting a bike together. There were some extra mods that we needed to make this bike exceptional.
- Frame Modifications: Cascade link mullet conversion
- Full Ohlins suspension custom tuning
- Rear Axle: Burgtec Santa Cruz 168.5mm Rear Axle - T 12mm / TP 1.0mm Race Red
- Linkage bolts: UNITE Santa Cruz Linkage Bolts Red Santa Cruz
- Shock Bolts: Burgtec Ti
- Tubeless Valves: Peaty's Mix kit
- Frame plugs: AXS frame plugs
HT2 6R4 Spec
- Fork
- Ohlins RXF 36 M2 Air (Light compression tune)
- Shock
- Ohlins TTX coil (C40 compression tune/R60 rebound tune, large bump stop, 540lb spring)
- Handlebar
- Burgtec RideWide Carbon Enduro 35 bars 30mm rise 800mm wide
- Stem
- Burgtec Enduro MK2 35 Stem Black 42.5mm Reach
- Grips
- Burgtec Bartender Pro Minnaar Grips Nasa Grey
- Headset
- Hope / Hope IS42 Headset Top Cover Red
- Brakes
- Sram Code RSC
- Shifters
- Sram X01 AXS Wireless
- Crankset
- Sram X01 Carbon
- Rear Derailleur
- Sram X01 AXS Wireless
- Cassette
- Sram X01
- Chain
- Sram X01 Gold
- Chain Device
- Absolute Black Oval Bash Guide ISCG05
- Seatpost
- RockShox Reverb Stealth
- Saddle
- Burgtec The Cloud Saddle Carbon rails
- Front Hub
- I9 Hydra
- Rear Hub
- I9 Hydra / Sram XD
- Spokes
- DT Competition DB
- Rims
- SantaCruz Reserve carbon 29” front 27.5” rear / 30mm width
- Tyres
- Maxxis DHR
Notable drivers: Harri Toivonen, Malcom Wilson, Jimmy McRae, Mat Clark
Credit to:
Design: TheEndInFrench (AKA Big Fin) / Velofique designs
Paint: Velofique designs
Build: ‘Sticky’ Micky Boswell
Photos: Dean Smith
Car: Dave Jonson
SC HT2 6R4 @snideart
We are proud to be able to offer this bike alongside some amazing original artwork from @snideart for you to hang in the garage. The perfect compliment to the coolest bike we've ever built!
