Show us your Titanium! - Ti and Stainless bikes

Girlfriends just got a genesis day one, and I've for serious bike envy.
Will do a search in a while but was wondering if anyone knew of a titanium frame which was similar? Disc brakes, 135mm spacing for an alfine rear hub, rack and mudguard mounts and clearance for 32's, or if I'll have to go custom?
Let me know..
@gabes, if you don't mind me asking how much was the frame, and how was the experience getting a frame built outside of the UK? Also would triton be able to make what I've outlined above.
Also good luck with the ride, looks epic..

Winterbike on cobbles.

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Van Nic and Lynskey make 'cross/trekking frames that kinda meet that brief. You'd probably want an EBB or sliding dropouts for Alfine, mind.

Burls

Kocmo.

Lynskey do a frame called the utbanskey, which seems to fit the bill, dropouts are kinda ugly though.
@Howard think the genesis has sliding dropouts.
@amey will drop burls a line, had a quick look at the Triton website and they don't seem to be that expensive, though they currently have a six month waiting list..

I came across http://cielorossobikes.com/ recently when reading about Chinese Ti. As far as I can tell this guy fronts one of the Chinese Ti manufacturers (XACD, Titan or Watly, not sure which) for you.

Might be worth a shot at £700 for a custom frame. Some very mixed reports regarding XACD in particular of poor customer services, frames not built to spec, cracking, and deformed tubes. Hopefully the premium is worth it for any potential warranty issues.

I looked into this and IMO the premium that Cieolorosso charges is worth it. You have to be pretty good at deciding exactly what you want with XACD etc, with Cieolorosso they probably give you more of a helping hand.

Burls is about 50% more for a custom ti frame than cielorosso.

Here's mine...

Beautiful. I don't normally like stems that match the paintwork, but yours works really well.

dis

Triton are full custom, they can do anything. He just did a CX frame with 142x12 thru axle and postmount disc mounts. He does everything basically.

Price, I'm not sure, I got a good deal as I'm being semi-sponsored. I guess you're looking at over £1100 incl shipping. Turnaround is around 6 months.

That painted Merlin is absolutely beautiful, very subtle.

Here's three

Orange Vitamin T2 - Pace RC30 forks, Middleburns, ControlTech stem, Syncros post

Merlin XLM - been through several iterations (most recent is second photo) but don't think I ever have had it how I'd like. Shame as it's a lovely frame

Merlin CR Works (but with older decals as I they are much cleaner) - Sram Rival groupset in silver, VN ti post. Saw me round LBL and up Mont Ventoux with no more discomfort than strictly necessary.

fantastic. what size is it?

Lovely. Are those Scott drop-in bars? Cool!!

Merlin looking great big ted. It carried me up Ventoux in 2009 as well :) Here it is near the top of Galibier on the same trip.

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They certainly are! I actually raced with these bars in the early nineties (mainly because as a teenager I was a huge Lemond groupie) but they had been in the spare parts bin for two decades. I decided to use them again because I wanted a platform for a GoPro camera as well as a place to mount the lights during long rides, because I want to keep the top of the bars free for my hands (especially while climbing I go "all over the the place"). Last summer I fell in love with the bars again, appreciating the bend of the drops, the position of the brake levers and - yes - going downhill I even tried and liked the extensions. They're not sexy but exactly what I need.

It's a 57.5 (C-C) 59 (C-T) with a 15.6 cm head tube and 57.5 cm top tube.

have had emails back from Burls and Lynskey

lynskey say that to get a frame similar to the Day One with sliding dropouts, based on this one
https://www.lynskeyperformance.com/store/2015-lynskey-urbanskey-titanium-commuter-bike.html
is a custom job so price is approx £2899 and I can add in as many bells as whistles as I want.
or I suppose I could just get the one above and shove in an EBB, anyone have any strong feelings one way or another in relation to EBB's chime in whenever)

Burls you'll be unsurprised to know can do it for less than half that, approx £1300, and Triton haven't got back to me...

Some EBB talk in the SSCX thread (the shortcut to make a hanger bike with PF30/BB30 a SS) - @Zdrenka done many heavy CX-miles on his EBB.

Not considered Travers bikes?
http://www.traversbikes.com

Lovely stuff....

prob silly question but can you wrap them bars with one roll of tape?

Cornelius, in your shoes I'd recommend looking at rocker dropouts - we evaluated sliding dropouts and EBB's and decided that rockers were the best solution available.

keep it short, but why are rocker dropouts better than EBB's or sliding? I'd like to be able to combat any queries with a bit more than "my friend said so"

looked at triton which operates in former USSR

@ £887 the price for custom road frame seems very desirable. paragon dropouts and genesis is twice the price without custom option.