Hey guys, Sam from Calibre here. Thanks for the kind words! Just to jump in on that headtube comment – I ride an XL and very much care about the aesthetics of the larger frames, when I saw this sample the first thing I said to Jonny is there is no way we’re letting that go to production. The XL production bikes have the angle of that downtube/headtube junction tweaked so it does look way better. I still think the extended welded section there isn’t particularly pretty and something to improve on but its definitely an improvement on this prototype 🙂
Aaaand the never ending “Is it just a Polygon?” comment – this is why we dove so deep into the development process in the video above (https://youtu.be/dRBC0yCTX_w), it’s an all new factory, new tube set, new forgings and designed from the ground up in our little office in Sheffield. Kudos to Northwind though for the most accurate comment on this I’ve seen to date, all the Calibre bikes have been Calibre’s own designs over the years but have shared the Polygon factory hence the similarities, forgings etc. have often overlapped but geo, spec, tubes have always varied from the Polygon bikes (with the exception of the Vander models which were the bikes that the factory had produced for Calibre as Bossnuts/Sentry but sold as Polygons when they cancelled all Calibre orders during the pandemic).
