2024 GRODEO BUILDER ROUND-UP: PART 2
Enjoy part 2 of this year's GRODEO Builder Round-Up. Featuring 24 builds from seven states and five countries, the builders put their best foot forward with their one-off works of art.
SALTAIR CYCLES
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
SaltAir Cycles is an independently owned bicycle frame company based in Salt Lake City. Founded in 2014 by Matthew Nelson, SaltAir creates modern bicycles with a traditional touch and a return to the local artisan experience. Focusing on craft, balanced with function, we build made-to-order steel frames using torch and file.
CALFEE DESIGNS
La Selva Beach, CA, USA
TETRA BIG ADVENTURE TANDEM
This tandem has couplers and is designed for travel. It also is set up to run either 700 x 35mm tires or 27.5 x 2". MATERIALS USED: Carbon Fiber, titanium and aluminum
Sram xx transmission
Big adventures.
weis
Brooklyn, NY, USA
HAMMER GRAVEL TI
The Hammer Gravel Ti is our most versatile frame in our lineup. We took everything we learned from years of racing and riding our Aluminum Gravel frames and applied it to the quality ride and feel of titanium.
Our asymmetric rear end keeps your sprints lively, while our formed and butted titanium tubing allows us to tune your frame to your riding style and desired use. Our use of digital fabrication technology is as important as the hands that make your frame. Our CNC 3 piece head tubes and use of 3d printing technology help to create our lightest and most robust frame yet, while keeping the slick visual lines our frames are known for.
STINNER FRAMEWORKS
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
TUNNEL
This is our flagship Mountain bike, the Tunnel. It is named after one of the hardest and well known front country trails in Santa Barbara. Our stock geometry for the Tunnel is optimized for a 140mm travel fork and is an extremely capable trail bike. For this Tunnel we teamed up with our good friend Aaron Allen who is one of the founders of Ambedo. This bike is to celebrate his 50th birthday! It features our standard Ti tubeset and our in-house designed UDH dropouts. We tweaked the geometry on this frame to optimize it for rowdy all day gravel adventures using the ENVE MTN Boost fork, or it can turn it into a super capable XC machine by swapping in the matching 100mm SID suspension fork. It features our QUAD paint scheme customized using our online configurator and upgraded with our 70/30 raw Ti panel. To keep it lightweight we went with a SRAM XX Transmission, ENVE M6 Carbon Bars and Alloy MTN Stem, and ENVE M6 wheelset with Rene Herse tires. Stopping power is provided by Hope brakes. To round off the build we went with Chris King for the headset and bottom bracket. Every detail of this bike was well thought out and we can't wait to hear about the places it takes Aaron.
SAFFRON FRAMEWORKS
London, UK
GRĀVĀ
The Grāvā is the culmination of the concept of the road less traveled. It opens up a world between the tarmac; bridleways, farm tracks, fire roads, woodland singletrack. As fast and smooth on road as it is off, the Grāvā will take you anywhere you want to go. Take a step away from the traffic and explore the unexplored, discover new places and reconnect with the simple joy of riding. Adventure begins where the asphalt ends.
The full stainless steel frame is silver brazed with tubing from Columbus and KVA and features a 3D printed headtube, utilizing the ENVE IN-Route system which allows for seamless integration of the headset and cockpit. This provides a simple and clean complete system for full internal routing of the brake hoses. At the other end, the dropouts also use 3D printed stainless steel technology to integrate flat mount disc brake mounts with thru axles and Sram UDH derailleur hangers for compatibility with Sram transmission derailleurs as well as Shimano and Campagnolo.
No. 22 Bicycles
Johnstown, NY, USA
DRIFTER
No. 22 showed a variation of our Drifter Adventure gravel bike. Starting with their award-winning Drifter model, the Drifter Adventure is for riders seeking additional tire clearance and compatibility for 1X drivetrains to take their adventures further off the beaten path.
Typically spec'd with a rigid fork offered by No. 22 under their No. 6 Composite's sister brand, a full buffet of mounting points are standard —seat tube, top of down tube, underside of down tube, bento, rack, fender and dynamo, allowing you bring more with you. For The GRODEO,, we modified the front end geo to accommodate a Rock Shox Rudy suspension fork, finished to match.
The bike was finished in No. 22's Midnight Bronze Cerakote | Bronze anodized finish with the finish details carried through the fork, Silca Sicuro cages, and 5Dev's new Ti gravel crankset. A SRAM Mullet Transmission drivetrain featuring the latest Red brifters and calipers and a set of ENVE G23s top-off the build. Oh, and as they're so seamless, we almost forgot - this build features our in-line couplers which allow the bike to be split in two for easier travel packing.
MOOTS
Steamboat Springs, CO, USA
MXC
We could say it’s an XC or marathon bike, but it would be boring to put such narrow labels on a bike this exciting. The MXC is our solution for riders looking for a lightweight titanium hardtail designed for buff trails, demanding climbs, hours of hard pedaling, and those areas in the world where “downcountry” trends don’t apply. The 1x-specific frame has space for a whopping 38T ring, clearance for 2.4” tires, and space for up to 3 water bottle mounts. The lightweight, large-diameter, double-butted front triangle joins a T47 bottom bracket and Boost 148mm dropouts to manifest in ultimate axle-to-axle tracking. The MXC is best paired with 100mm suspension forks to achieve a refreshing 69-degree* headtube angle. And no, that’s not a typo - this rig is purpose-built for riders seeking a bike that excels in high-speed terrain. *All Moots suspension models geometries are measured at 25% rider sag
MOSAIC CYCLES
Boulder, CO, USA
GT1 - i45
In partnership with Signature Cycles of Greenwich, CT we put together an Artist Series Mosaic GT-1 i45 gravel bike for co-owner, Abraham Soler. This GT-1 i45 was designed and made to order, creating a race-ready, durable, and versatile gravel bike that wants to push the limits. The talented team at Signature Cycles, who deliver a world-class bike fit experience and highly professional service, completed the fit, component selection, and final build.
This GT-1 i45 features a rider-specific double-butted titanium tube set built to Abraham's exact fit specifications, a custom Mosaic Artist Series Scale paint job, 3D printed cranks from Sturdy Cycles and the full suite of parts from Shimano and ENVE. The GT-1 i45 platform has been tested and refined on the toughest gravel courses from the Wasatch Mountains to the UCI Gravel World Championships to deliver a modern, confident, and comfortable platform to build your dream gravel bike upon. It's the proven Mosaic GT-1 45 that we know and love, updated with an ENVE Integrated Gravel Fork & Cockpit for a sleek made-to-order build"
LITESPEED Bicycles
Chattanooga, TN, USA
TOSCANO
Inspired by the cypress-lined white roads of the Strade Bianche in Italy’s Tuscany region, the Toscano is Litespeed’s flagship gravel model. Carefully crafted by hand in Chattanooga, TN, each Toscano features cold-shaped tubes and beautifully sculpted external butting to create a truly standout aesthetic. While every tube on the Toscano is hand shaped, or milled, its defining characteristic is a hand formed 6AL/4V top tube, saving weight while delivering a marked increase in torsional stiffness. The Toscano is Litespeed’s lightest gravel frame, weighing in at 1,240 grams in an ENVE IN-Route-compatible size medium. 6AL/4V sheet-formed titanium top tube, with cold-worked 2AL/2.5V main frame tubes.
HORSE CYCLES
Andes, NY, USA
ADVENTURE WAGON
Bike packing / Clearance for 55 x 700c / painted with RIVIAN Green.
Material used Columbus Life - Steel
HALEY TITANIUM CYCLES
Kentfield, CA, USA
SUPERSTRADA TI CARBON
Oversized Titanium with carbon seat and top tubes, with options of adjustable standard seatpost or integrated seat mast. While this one is a road specific model, we offer it in all road and gravel options as well. Haley was created in 2016, and our first bikes were on the ground in 2018. We build our handmade Titanium frames in both Colorado and Marin County, depending on the model.
ENGLISH CYCLES
Eugene, OR, USA
TTMK3
The TT Mk3 evolves features from the Mk2 whilst adding disc brakes. Everything is kept as narrow as possible, with a custom low-q crankset and specially drawn NACA profile steel tubing. The integrated fork and handlebar feature a steerer-less design with an internal steering limiter, hidden fasteners and mounting for the yet-to-be-released ENVE aero extensions. An eccentric saddle mount allows for fine-tuning of seat height.
breadwinner CYCLES
Portland, OR, USA
A-ROAD
All-road, All-ride comfort for any of your riding aspirations. The A-Road is the product of a decade of Breadwinner and over 1,000 bikes made. We took 10 years of rider feedback and turned it into the most modern, configurable premium steel road bike made in the USA today. Whether your day-to-day riding takes you on perfect pavement, less-than-ideal chipseal, or primitive graded gravel, the A-Road brings its A-game. Hard to say whether we’ve slimmed down our flagship B-Road or added versatility to the legendary Lolo, but what’s for sure is that the A-Road is the most balanced drop bar bike we’ve designed to date. The A-Road is designed for tires ranging from 28-38mm. That means that you’ll feel a floatatious ride without lugging around extra rubber. Each frame is built with a optimized blend of top-end Columbus tubing.
CICLI BARCO
Italy
QUINTA STRADA
Steel and carbon. Our spearhead in terms of research and development.
