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BareNecessities
Guess I'll bung it here
New Chinese Ti build incoming. It's only just been finished so I haven't taken delivery yet. I guess it will be at least a week or so. I will then want it painted. I'm not at the point in my life of succumbing to raw Ti bikes.
The brief was a fairly racey "fast/aggressive" road frame but with space for mudguards.
I thought about copying the geometry from something I know works, either my CAAD12 or some other current race bike, an SL7 or something but in the end I just made it from scratch for my needs. I've kept the stack and reach more or less the same as I'm used to on previous bikes Inc the caad but it's a touch steeper at the front and a bit steeper at the back as I like to sit quite far forward on most road frames.
I'm mostly torso and not legs so I've dropped the top tube and gone fairly compact which should get back some lightness from the non butted tubing and provide a bit more seatpost flex for comfort.
I'm hoping to squeeze 28s and mudguards in a 367mm a-c fork so that without the guards on, it still looks like a road bike rather than a gravel bike with too skinny tyres and huge gaps.
This is the model I started with