Saffron Travel/everything bike project

Hi all,

As some of you know I work with Matthew at Saffron Frameworks now. It's about time I was riding a Saffron so I've been working on the designs for my new bike, which is due to be finished in the next few months.

A little background - I hate riding my winter bike, the geo is too slack and wheelbase too long, BUT I'm a total mudguard man during the winter. The Plan for the bike is to max out a standard set of Dura Ace brakes (25c plus guards, or 28c without) to allow me to ride it all year round.
Secondly I find it hard to travel with my bike (and I plan to do this a lot more) as my frame is so large, too large for most bike boxes. For this frame I have decided to have S and S couplers to allow me to pack the bike into a 700x700 flight case with room to spare. Further to this I don't like the ideas of cable splitters so I've decided to go for Etap - meaning I'll just have to pop the rear brake off the frame to split/pack

Specs:

1. Columbus Life tube set (Short taper oval chain stays, road S bend seat stays)
   
2. Columbus FEL fork with mudguard eyelets added
   
3. 44mm head tube
   
4. Chris King HS (Inset 7)
   
5. Rotor Inpower cranks with praxis chainrings
   
6. Etap group
   
7. Dura ace brakes
   
8. Zipp SL88 bars
   
9. 3t stem, painted in with frame
   
10. ENVE post
    
11. Zipp service course 30 wheels, tubeless
    
12. Ti Flite saddle, obvs