Now that is a pretty bike.

I don’t get it.

Perfectly nice looking bike, that. Porn? Nope.

Porn doesn’t have XT.
Porn is rarely grey, unless The Pinkster is the target market.

Front mech, niche.

Nice colour.
I’m with wrecker…looks pretty ordinary otherwise.

Meh, nothing special looking at all and has a horrid bend in the downtube

Don’t get the lust after Shand bikes at all

Lovely. Just lovely.

Beautiful. Some great detail work as usual from Shand.

I’m a fan of steel HT’s as much as the next man person but that’s not a design to get overly excited about … and 980 notes seems a bit steep.

Can’t
Stop
Looking
At
The
MISSING VALVE CAP

Meh

Looks a bit like a Giant I used to have

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice enough but not an entire thread nice, and certainly not £1k frame nice.
Just my opinion.

Meh

Looks a bit like a Giant I used to have

No it doesn’t.

The down tube cabling looks terrible IMO….

I get it, it’s perfectly proportioned-aesthetic, functional.

seabass

The down tube cabling looks terrible IMO….

He’s right, that is what’s commonly referred to as a cluster ****.

Would look lovely with complete internal routing, it’d be a nightmare but it’d look nice.

Agree with what metasequoia said.
DT cable clips make sense if you wanted to 1x it.
Geo looks spot on.

Nowt special?

If you crashed a Solaris and bent the downtube, it’d look like that. Only without the ugly cable routing. Usually I love Shand bikes but this one, nah, at best it’s ordinary.

Wheels too big, Clown bike.

OMG! Hadn’t spotted the missing valve cap till it was mentioned.

I like Shand bikes, and steel hardtails. Not impressed by that colour though.

Nice enough, but I’d take a Curtis over that.

I’d take a Curtis over that.

Exactly what I thought – the AM7, specifically.

That’s a rather lovely looking frame, I like the colour especially.

Nice enough but it does look like somebody has wrestled some 29er wheels and a Duck-egg Soul together and had to resort to an uppercut in the downtube 😮

Very tidy and understated- I like that a lot. Shand do some really nice stuff.

Tidy. Wrong colour. But tidy.
I would.

wrong colour

All I’m going to say on this thread!

Definitely a Solaris-a-like

I love the colour… If I won the lottery tonight and placed my order for a Stoater tomorrow, it’d be that one.

I think for the reverb hose a DT/ST ‘corner cut’ a la Whyte might have helped tidy things up a bit.

Comparing it to a Curtis though? Look at the brazing!

@shand

I agree. Just the owner of the original bike in this thread chose incorectly…. 😉

(Candy red sparkles for me)

And like Kona head badges, how many folk have worked out the naming of said bike?

We all perceive aesthetics differently it’s always subjective. It looks more attractive here –

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-bike-build-thread-niche-content

Lots of care and attention has obviously gone into the design/construction and kudos to Shand for manufacturing in Britain.

Beautiful. Some great detail work as usual from Shand.

Is there? The shit hose and cable routing jumps out at me. If they can’t get that right…

I think its sweet. A cable and a hose are going to lie, to some extent, where they want to lie so some bends will remain. Remember theyve probably been sat in a box coiled up for the last 8 months on a shelf somewhere. If the photograph had been taken from a different angle they wouldnt be visible and they def wouldnt be visible to the rider as theyre well out the road.

Do Shand go to the same place as Kona for their decals?

Would look lovely if the photo wasn’t squished in the horizontal.

Nearly but not quite for me. Not sure 3x bottle bosses and drop out choice make a 100mm frame ‘adventure’? I really hate the cabling but the website is pretty informative – only thing missing is mud clearance shot at the chainstays. Bet its tight with Columbus and 2.25.

And like Kona head badges, how many folk have worked out the naming of said bike?

I see you baby…..