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Not pure porn perhaps, but here seems as good a place as any.
Seems it's built by some new start up in London: http://explorateur.cc/
This is all I could find on it:
This is an EXPLORATEUR.
We’re a small London based custom frame building company.
We only build these frames to order.
Tom Ritchey himself has given us his blessing and official licence to use the Brake-Away system. We slightly customise the seat tube lug and run internal cabling – but the essence of this simple and light system is the same.
This particular bike is a prototype that Rapha used for their 2011 fall/winter photo shoot in Oslo.
It’s a mix of Columbus Spirit and Kaisei tubing – with internal gear and disc brake cabling. Horizontal dropouts and a road/cross geometry.
Fillet brazed with stainless steel dropouts and facing reinforcement rings on head tube, seat tube and bottom bracket.
Custom fillet brazed Columbus Spirit disc forks with internal cabling and SS dropouts.
The build is a mix of Campag Record, custom painted Thomson seatpost and stem, custom 28 hole C20 BrobyCarbon full-carbon clincher rims (Sold at Tokyo Fixed Gear and Condor Cycles. – We also use the BrobyCarbon C40, C50 and C60 super strong carbon clincher rims for cross. Top kit at very reasonable prices!), Tune custom Campag disc hubs, Fizik saddle, Lizard Skins bar tape, Ritchey WCS bars, Conti tyres, Elite SS cages, Chris King headset, FSA/TA chainset and a full Token alu build kit.
This bike is set to do all the Rapha Cyclo-Cross races this winter + the Paris-Roubaix Challenge next year with Rapha and Rouleur.
We build with both Reynolds, Columbus and Kaisei tubing – and potentially also the new KVA stainless tubing in the near future.
I'm pretty interested in that Ritchey seat tube/splitter lug thing. The head tube all looks solid, so I'm assuming there is another splitter at the BB shell?