main st. gravel

longer and slacker to offer better handling over unpaved terrain.

Craig has been an avid road cyclist for years and has owned some fine machines for that discipline. Those bikes brought him past many side roads he wanted to explore. So we looked at his position on his carbon road racer, maintained what was comfortable from it, lowered the bottom bracket, lifted the stack just a bit, relaxed the head angle, and gave him room for 700x44 mm tires.

Craig is now happily exploring all those side roads and a little single track!

Columbus Life head, top, and down tubes. Columbus SL stays. Reynolds 853 seat tube.

Built with Sram Force 1x11 40/11-36, flat-mount. WTB rubber on Boyd Cycling CCCs at 20lbs even, as pictured with Ritchey pedals..

Geo Chart - Click to enlarge

ETT
Effective Toptube 590 mm
STL Seat Tube Length
HTA Head Tube Angle 70.75°
STA Seat Tube Angle 73°
BBD Bottom Bracket Drop 71.5 mm
CSL Chain Stay Length 426 mm
HTL Head Tube Length
FL Fork Length
FO Fork Offset
WB Wheelbase
S Stack 575 mm
R Reach 405 mm
Color Burgundy/Black