£1.7k frame only!
£1695 for frame only, which granted is at the pricey end but look at the detail ... the detail! plus made in uk etc etc.....
Agree it is very nice. But a UK made Stanton is approx half that.
I am on my 3rd Mason frame, replaced twice under warranty. I know two other people with Masons and both replaced / fixed. One a catastrophic failure of the ti frame on the cable guide near the bottom bracket.
I know these look nice but the words barge and pole immediately spring to mind!
Dont care about the price.... I want one, in that blue colour...Mmmmmmmm.
A custom Curtis, exactly to your specifications, or a mason for 500 quid more. Hmm, really?
Pretty dull tbh, especially at that price.
Are they planning on selling these to roadies and gravel enthusiasts, who may not be aware of the price being so - erm - ambitious?
I could get a UK-made Starling full-sus frame for £180 more.
Also, the frames are painted, not raw. And there's already a bike brand called Raaw.
I might start a company called Raaaw, for a laugh.
i know, there's a lot of good stuff out there for less but Mason stuff is very well thought out and always looks pretty! I'd love one but I'm more a SH cotic budget kinda guy!
Doesn't look especially special to me or really any different from any other steel HT out there, but the price, my word, you could spec a carbon FS frame on a £5k value XC bike for that 😉
Looks like the same (awful) internal routing as the Sour Crumble - the recent Hardtail Party review put me right off that frame (which is prettier, made in Europe, and half the price)
That does NOT look value for money.
Pretty. But not £1700 pretty.
DrP
Bloody hell, you can buy a Fiat Panda for the price of the frame.
Just to put the price in context, Mason do a steel road bike frame with carbon fork included for £105 less than the Raw frame alone.
https://masoncycles.cc/products/resolution-frameset
'tis very spendy.
Time for some pictures:
Easy pass from me. I am not into the "someone's gone mental with the rivnut tool" aesthetic.
Easy pass from me. I am not into the “someone’s gone mental with the rivnut tool” aesthetic.
Thats fair enough, but the riders this is aimed at want all those mounts.
Jizzers gonna Jizz.
495mm reach on an XL? Cotic for me pls.
It doesn't look as "pearly queen" as the latest Cotic Solaris TBF.
Looks like a Raleigh and not in a good way.
Is it actually UK made or is it European made with finishing and build in the UK?
Not that I'm bothered but it's a bit unclear from the marketing
YTF did I think it would be OK to click on that link 🙈
Looks lovely, I'd probably still buy an ISO if I had £4k for Mason burning a hole in my pocket.
It's very pretty but Mason Raw sounds like the stage name of a wannabe wrestler from S****horpe
Raw Deore? - that just sounds contagious. Now wash your hands 🙃
Not that I’m bothered but it’s a bit unclear from the marketing
Mason are always very clear where their frames are made (fabricated). In this case, the RAW frame is made (mitred, welded etc) in the UK, just as they say.
“The RAW is fabricated and finished in the UK by our friends at Five Land Bikes.”
I’d so buy a Curtis AM7 over this and save myself £350. Either in polished and clearcoated or candy blue. The Raw is mental money for a fairly standard looking / standard geometry steel trail frame.
Also if you compare the value to the Ribble HT725 or the Ti version of it or say the Bird Forge they manage to get decent steel / Ti tubing in for less price than the Raw.
…Ribble … Bird…
Of course they are. By not building them in the UK. You don’t have to buy a UK built bike. Save your money and buy elsewhere. But UK built in small batches to a super high standard will cost you a lot, if that’s what you (or me, or others) want. I can’t afford one of these. I’m not shocked at the price though.
I’m not shocked at the price though.
Well I'm shocked that you're not shocked.
I bet a few other hardtail brands will be having a good chuckle about this.
Pretty fancy mix of tubesets too. Looks great.
Love that downtube.
But UK built in small batches to a super high standard will cost you a lot, if that’s what you (or me, or others) want. I can’t afford one of these. I’m not shocked at the price though.
But these aren’t custom and yet they cost a chunk more than Curtis. And their frames are beautifully braised and you can change some of the geometry in the front triangle. Curtis build with 853 so that’s fairly fancy tuning at that.
I don’t see what the Mason is bringing over that for the extra money?
That weight quoted by Chipps is pretty much the same as a medium Solaris- I wonder if that suggests that’s getting to the limit of what you can sensibly get a modern spec steel hardtail frame down to?
Just to put the price in context, Mason do a steel road bike frame with carbon fork included for £105 less than the Raw frame alone.
I've got one of these. For me it does ride very nicely. It has the steel feel about it. Is relatively light for a steel road frame. Not racy, just really 'easy' to ride, exactly what I want.
I'm not sure I'd notice the same thing on a hardtail with big tyres, especially with a load of bags strapped on. I'm not sure that all those fancy tubes and bends are worth it for that application tbh. I'd quite like a bog standard cromo version for less, but then there are a loads of options there already.
I do fancy a bokeh though.
And more manufacturers should spec chain hangers
Happened to be passing Mason barn a few weeks ago and got to have a look at one close up. The pics really don't do it justice, proper lovely in the flesh.
But that is a lot of money for frame only!
hugely expensive and pretty ugly.
For context a stock size Shand Bahookie frame and steel fork is 1895, and I’d argue finish and details on the Mason look better.
hugely expensive and pretty ugly.
You have some odd opinions, but calling this frame ugly is the oddest yet.
Way too much money !!!! They’ll sell loads 🙂
Is there some sort oy cycling industry in-joke about who can make a bike with the highest number of pointless 'mounts' on a bike?
You could buy the faster stooge mkV.....
It's nice, British built, some people have deep enough pockets to buy one and so they should. There will always be expensive frames, and less expensive frames. Some with angles that suit, some not so.
The thing with frame prices is though, what some people find outrageous, others will be perfectly fine with. With the obvious thought that "most" people think that anything over £500 is expensive for a full bike anyway let alone just the frame...(lost track of how many folks I've had that conversation with)
Fair play to Mason about being honest with where they are made (Swarf and Cotic were also mentioned as builders).
I guess they see it as a selling point in being associated with well respected UK and EU builders, but some of those companies will do you a fully custom hardtail frame with your own geo, improved cable routing, all the extra little details you want, whatever paint you want, etc for less money!
I am in the I don't get it camp. Even for £1000 it would still be overpriced IMO but then I am most likely not the target market 😉 🙂
And their frames are beautifully braised
With some vegetables in a low oven?
