Originally Posted by alcahueteria

I have a gary fisher tassajara, and I was thinking about upgrading some components on it. That lead me to the thought of going full out XTR(not going to happen), but theoretically if it did wouldn't my frame ( excluding other crap) essentially be the worse part of my bike? Would it be a waste to upgrade that far?
Are there actually signficant differences in hardtail frame quality?

It just seems that if you had a frame that you were comfortable on and comfortable with the weight of, that there wouldn't be much else reason to look for a new one. Am I way off here?