Don’t like the colour combo or the logos either, the graphics don’t suit the style of frame I think, they’d be perfectly at home on something with more modern looks/chunkier tubes, but this has those gorgeous slim lines. But still, it is a lovely bike and I totally want it, just not in those colours. A single colour, simple graphics, would suit it so much better.
I wouldn’t have those cranks myself but they do suit the bike I think. Or they would if there was any sort of colour coherence about it, black would have made all the difference. Obviously it’s a frame they’re showing off not the build but the build doesn’t flatter it at all imo. It does look exactly like I built it with bits off my last bike, “here’s those XTR M970 cranks I got for my Soul back in 2010… Here’s that saddle that looks like crap but which is really comfy and they don’t make any more…”
Which is fine! When I first saw a Ragley Ti it was Brant’s own bike and the buid was his own bits, this feels the same. The “here is a real example” thing can work great. And I think it works pretty well in the brewery photoshoot. It’s just not what I’d use for the Big Launch of a £2300 frame-without-shock. Roll it out with the pornographic best-possible-example pictures, there’s a reason everyone else does that.
