Aluminium Gravel/Cyclocoss frame

smoothmoose wrote:What's your budget?  Are looking for custom?  Where are you?

I am ok with off the shelf frames. Located in CA.

dangle wrote:Squid Bikes are made in California and meet your requirements. Here's their cross frame.

Thank you both @smoothmoose and @dangle,

I am looking for a frame which is in the <$1k category. 

I just finished restoring a 2016 Haanjo Gravel Aluminum Gravel Bike which I purchased for little money. I finished with my own custom decals and design and really enjoy the outcome. So I like to do another frame with a different brushed aluminum design. Hence I am looking for a mid range frame - decent quality mass production frames are not expensive at all.

In the meantime I found some Aluminum manufacturers on Alibaba, but they have little interest selling single units and also appear to be heavy and of very low quality. There are several more I have yet to reach out to, but if anyone has a hint, would be great. 

I also found some left over inventory on Aliexpress, but all of this frames seem to be on the smaller side.

Thanks folks!