Gaulzetti Interclub

This is a little way away - estimated delivery is 12-15 weeks but as Italy shuts down for August - who knows. Craig Gaulzetti designed my Seven - as a bike designer in his own right and ex-Seven employee he seems be in a unique position where Seven don't really touch the frame designs he sends to them. In my case, they shortened the chainstays by 4mm and steepened the HTA by 0.5 degrees.

So anyway, it's the best handling bike I've ever ridden, so I wanted to see what Craig would do when he's given all of the control. Tubing, that he has designed, will be coming from Dedacciai.

Aluminium, rim brakes, ISP, 28c clearance, T47 equipped go fast bike. Identical contact points to my Seven. When drawing the frame, we set the Purely Custom jig up with my Seven measurements and moved me around the bottom bracket for a slightly more aggressive fit and decided that it offered no benefit to my pedal stroke or power output, while placing more weight on my hands, so reverted back to the Seven's fit.

Build will be a PMP set back seat post topper, Deda 35 stem and bars cause they look great with oversized aluminium and Chorus 12 everything else. 50/34 and 11/32 because there's no flat riding near me. I've ridden bigger gearing here and it's miserable.

Because the frame will be relatively small, we were able to spec thinner sidewalls than one typically would for a larger frame, so it should easily be sub 1000g for the frame inclusive of paint, which is pretty cool.

Now... paint paint paint. I have no idea what to do for paint. I quite like Pantone 17-5641 Emerald but will admit that I am really struggling to even know where to begin....

Not my bike but the frame will look quite similar to this:

Updates to follow...