Hoke's L96

A track version of Matts triantolope bike would be sweet.

So like @tomsvoboda 's, but with added

Yes!

Mega congratulations. When are we setting up our consultancy?

Well done mate

To celebrate, how about you tow me for about 6 hours on Sunday?

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bmc/track-tr02-2015-track-frameset-ec056561?country=GB&currency=GBP&source=criteo&medium=display

I was really tempted with this, (whole bike not the frameset as I'm a small) but is there a reason why the drop out is a separate piece from the frame?

Another reason is that I've been speaking to a mate of mine who is currently working at Evans Cycles and asking him if there is any possibility of getting the TR01 as a complete bike...

but is there a reason why the drop out is a separate piece from the frame?

So it's replaceable.

Note: not crackable if that's what you're asking.

To back up what @edscoble says:
"The genesis of the TR02 is almost as diverting as its appearance. It is, in essence, an hors catégorie rental bike [...] Many of the design solutions that you find on this bike were driven by that.” The most obvious are the replaceable, stainless steel dropouts: items likely to suffer wear on a privately-owned machine, and still more so on a rental bike."

Taken from https://rouleur.cc/journal/bicycles/desire-bmc-track-machine-tr02

For £1750 it's not an "insane" amount of money and the quality of the parts for an OTP is great (especially against say the OTP CAAD10 track). Do it Ho, while they've still got stock!

Regarding TR02 I am still not sure you can have fun on 73 degree HT, compared to sprint machines like 496 keeping it 74.5 degrees.

^ Isn't that a £6000 frame?

It's not just the head angle, but even the fork rake is at a standard 43mm.

So basically it's a track bike with a road front.

@mdcc_tester is there's a reason why some track frame have a standard trail of 58mm? (or similar).

why some track frame have a standard trail of 58mm? (or similar).

Designed for the many track events that uses an aerobar - better steering with the lower trail on the aerobars, compared to the high trail track sprint breeds.

The TR02 uses the same fork (straightedge SL048 TP) as many of BMC's road bikes, so can be used with a brake for track/tark conversion. not sure if matters. And if you bought the full bike you could re-lace those DA hubs to a rim of choice. Not sure if you can otherwise get DA hubs in 20/24 drilling?

RE the head angles - if that linked article is accurate then using road geo at the front makes for an easy handling rental/learner bike with the added advantage of using stock headtubes and forks from their road bikes.

I somewhat doubt that would be the case, as the majority of rental track bike did have standard track geo (Precursa for instance).

Thuekr's comment about the aerobar make sense.

Well it's the exact same fork I have on my SL01 roadie and has the same head angle. It's not hard to believe that BMC specced the bike to be as easy to build with minimal re-tooling is it?

It's not hard to believe that bicycle manufacturers specced the bike to be as easy to build with minimal re-tooling is it?

FTFY.

...zactly.

Still, it'd be a great bike if it was £750. Did anyone actually purchase a full price one? Boggles the mind.

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bmc/tr01-2015-track-bike-frameset-ec066008 in small...

Only £107 a month on finance!...

any progress???

So it's been nearly two years of thinking and umming, I think it is about time to finally dust off this thread and start my life back on the track with a bang...

#backonthetrack

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Your place is so neat. I'm jealous.

Langster pro?