Here’s “Lucky Cat” (or “Zhāocái māo”); My fully-customized, bespoke titanium gravel build, featuring a frame from the excellent folks at Waltly Titanium.
Every accessory mount, hose routing, tube position and length, angle, the welded mount for the chain catcher (on a 1x), the specified future-proofed UDH, routing for a dropper post, and massive (58mm!) tire clearance was chosen by me, and came at no added cost. The custom graphics, in this case bead-blasted downtube graphics and an engraved head tube logo came at an incredibly reasonable cost.
The planned mullet configuration featuring SRAM Transmission rear bits was placed on hold when their direct mount, 13-speed XPLR was leaked. I’ll run my old Apex XPLR until the new tech trickles down.
I transferred my Apex groupset, Spinergy GXX wheels and most of the rest from my previous gravel frame. Only the bar tape, bottom bracket (BBInfinite), Headset (Cane CreeK) and saddle (Selle SMP) are new for this build.
Full custom titanium with extra gobbins, custom graphics and shipping set me back $1700 US, delivered….including the PayPal fee. Have you priced branded titanium?
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You can’t compare Waltly to other builders like Moots or No 22. The bike looks great though! I like the head badge.
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Here’s “Lucky Cat” (or “Zhāocái māo”); My fully-customized, bespoke titanium gravel build, featuring a frame from the excellent folks at Waltly Titanium.
Every accessory mount, hose routing, tube position and length, angle, the welded mount for the chain catcher (on a 1x), the specified future-proofed UDH, routing for a dropper post, and massive (58mm!) tire clearance was chosen by me, and came at no added cost. The custom graphics, in this case bead-blasted downtube graphics and an engraved head tube logo came at an incredibly reasonable cost.
The planned mullet configuration featuring SRAM Transmission rear bits was placed on hold when their direct mount, 13-speed XPLR was leaked. I’ll run my old Apex XPLR until the new tech trickles down.
I transferred my Apex groupset, Spinergy GXX wheels and most of the rest from my previous gravel frame. Only the bar tape, bottom bracket (BBInfinite), Headset (Cane CreeK) and saddle (Selle SMP) are new for this build.
Full custom titanium with extra gobbins, custom graphics and shipping set me back $1700 US, delivered….including the PayPal fee. Have you priced branded titanium?
You can’t compare Waltly to other builders like Moots or No 22. The bike looks great though! I like the head badge.
Looks lovely!