I'm not about to talk you out of getting a Waltly bike but Triton definitely produce good ones. They have customers all over the world and have their place at NAHBS.
As for triton, I would have loved to give them a shot but I went with Waltly also due to budget. If I end up deciding titanium is my material of choice when time comes I'll have to make a bigger budget for next time 🙂
So 3 months start to finish, the Waltly finally came in, shipping was quite expensive.. but it arrived in 3 business days. Will post the build once it's final 🙂
You can buy 2 Waltly's for the price of a Triton and have money left over. You can buy US ti frames for that price.
Curious Zman here. What US Ti frames could you buy that is in the price range of the Triton. I wat a really light ti bike so willing to pay extra for that. It's going to be my retirement bike so I want to get it right the first time. I hear or read here that the Lynskey 260 or new version is overbuilt in the rear causing it to be heavy. I read over at gravel cyclist review of T Labs ti X3(think that is the model)bike out of Canada. Looking for some ti builders here in the States. I don't know about bikes at all but know I am satisfied with my geometry of my Raleigh Roker or Tamland's geometry. Oh yeah I probably want to buy the bike complete with the ew Shimano GRX Ultegra and maybe with Di2 Thanks for any help.
Curious Zman here. What US Ti frames could you buy that is in the price range of the Triton. I wat a really light ti bike so willing to pay extra for that. It's going to be my retirement bike so I want to get it right the first time. I hear or read here that the Lynskey 260 or new version is overbuilt in the rear causing it to be heavy. I read over at gravel cyclist review of T Labs ti X3(think that is the model)bike out of Canada. Looking for some ti builders here in the States. I don't know about bikes at all but know I am satisfied with my geometry of my Raleigh Roker or Tamland's geometry. Oh yeah I probably want to buy the bike complete with the ew Shimano GRX Ultegra and maybe with Di2 Thanks for any help.
Zman
Sounds like you could consider a Litespeed frame right now. They're generally in the 1300-1400g range. Frames depending on what direction you want to go start at $1800 with their black friday sales. Custom geo will some extra bells & whistles will probably run closer to $3000.
Sounds like you could consider a Litespeed frame right now. They're generally in the 1300-1400g range. Frames depending on what direction you want to go start at $1800 with their black friday sales. Custom geo will some extra bells & whistles will probably run closer to $3000.
Thanks for that info. About the only bells and whistles I would want would be 3rd water bottle boss ad the boss on the top for the bento box/feed box. Maybe somethigs if I decided to do bike packing with it. What bells and whistles would you want artic84?
arctic84 wrote:So 3 months start to finish, the Waltly finally came in, shipping was quite expensive.. but it arrived in 3 business days. Will post the build once it's final
What chainstay length and tire size did you design this for? Was the rear monostay an additional charge (and do you have a fender mount in it)? This looks like it came together pretty well. I've been emailing with Sumi but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
Thanks for that info. About the only bells and whistles I would want would be 3rd water bottle boss ad the boss on the top for the bento box/feed box. Maybe somethigs if I decided to do bike packing with it. What bells and whistles would you want artic84?
Zman
Honestly they don't really charge extra for the bottle bosses, at least not that I can recall. I'm pretty good with my bike as it is now, I asked for the T47 bottom bracket and the monostay. I think the only thing I would have considered was a headbadge, but I had no good designs for one so I didn't bother.
nalax wrote: What chainstay length and tire size did you design this for? Was the rear monostay an additional charge (and do you have a fender mount in it)? This looks like it came together pretty well. I've been emailing with Sumi but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
Chainstay length is 437mm, it's designed for 700c but I currently only have 650b so that's what's going on for now (technically did the same for my Carbonda CFR696) 700c wheels are being built atm. Monostay was an additional charge, I do not have the fender to mount it and honestly I'm in California so I don't even know if I'll get around to picking one up. I hope your experience with Sumi is good. I didn't work with Sumi, but I feel like they are in the business of bikes. The one main issue with my bike was that the internal routing cable holes were swapped (one is two holes, other side only has one hole). I didn't realize this on the design and Amy either overlooked it or just didn't understand why it matters. Anyways make sure you look over your drawings very carefully before pulling that trigger.
Yes - I busted up my knee in September (quad tendon tear) so in my down time since I couldn't ride...had too much time to think about riding and ended up ordering a frame from Waltly. It's supposed to arrive within a week. I worked with Sumi and we went back and forth many times before I came to a final design-she was very helpful. Asked for clearance for 50C tires and they have done so. Also added extra bottle bosses bottom of down tube and for a top tube bag. (I think that was $20 extra for those). Added an engraved logo to the headset and logos - all for a small extra charge. I hope I gave them a geometry that will work well, but it's a bit of a leap of faith I suppose...I've never tried doing anything like this before. A couple photos they sent a few days ago of the finished product.
nalax wrote: IMHO that is a great looking bike. How is the ride?
Ride overall is good, I feel like I might have used oversized tubing because it feels less compliant than my Carbonda 696. Designed it after the Moots Routt 45, but due to the different tubing I'm sure it'll have different ride characteristics.
RedRambler wrote:Yes - I busted up my knee in September (quad tendon tear) so in my down time since I couldn't ride...had too much time to think about riding and ended up ordering a frame from Waltly. It's supposed to arrive within a week. I worked with Sumi and we went back and forth many times before I came to a final design-she was very helpful. Asked for clearance for 50C tires and they have done so. Also added extra bottle bosses bottom of down tube and for a top tube bag. (I think that was $20 extra for those). Added an engraved logo to the headset and logos - all for a small extra charge. I hope I gave them a geometry that will work well, but it's a bit of a leap of faith I suppose...I've never tried doing anything like this before. A couple photos they sent a few days ago of the finished product.
That's great to hear about your experience with Sumi, did you find out about the engraved logo yourself? I ended up learning more when researching Wally after I submitted my design with Amy, by then it was too late to make adjustments. It was quite frustrating to hear about other options I could have done afterwards.
That's great to hear about your experience with Sumi, did you find out about the engraved logo yourself? I ended up learning more when researching Wally after I submitted my design with Amy, by then it was too late to make adjustments. It was quite frustrating to hear about other options I could have done afterwards.
I saw the engraved head tube option on their website when I was researching the company. Maybe that's something newer they updated to it recently, but I'm not sure. They have CNC engraving listed as a column if you scroll down a bit on their main website.
