Drake (Frame/Fork)

An adventure touring frame stout and stable enough for medium duty touring and bikepacking, but is also nimble enough to be a fun and fast commuter bike. While many modern touring forks only have 3-pack mounts, the Drake’s fork is designed for real racks — mini-rack mounts for randonneuring bags or low rider rack mounts for panniers. The geometry features a unique combination of higher bottom bracket height (higher than on traditional touring and gravel bikes), high stack, and sloping top tube. This helps reduce pedal strike on uneven dirt terrain, allows for a higher bar set-up if desired, and improves standover clearance. It also have plenty of clearance to run plush tires and fenders. Features tried and true standards like English threaded BB shell and QR dropouts and fork ends.

- Tange Champion double butted CrMo steel main tubes; tapered CrMo rear tubes

- Frame fits rear racks and fenders

- Three sets of water bottle bosses

- Extra tall headtube makes upright builds look better

- Sloping top tube for more standover height and more stiffness over level top tube frames

- Will handle tires up to 27.5 x 2.1" tires (27.5 x 42mm wide tires if using fenders) (Will also fit 700c tires up to 45mm)

- Designed for disc brakes (Internation Standard mount, 160mm rotors)

- Optional fork available (Investment cast sloping lugged crown, 50mm rake, low rider pannier braze-ons, mini-rack mounts, double eyelets at dropouts) (If you want to source your own fork, the frame is compatible with forks that have a 390-400mm axle to crown with 44 - 50mm rake/offset)

- Sizes: 52, 54, 56, 58, 60cm (Virtual sizing -- does not go by seat tube length)

- Paint: Dark Teal or Champagne

- Part Requirements: Seatpost: 27.2mm OD, Seat Collar: 30.0mm Front derailleur: 28.6mm OD, Headset: 1-1/8" threadless (EC34), external cup, Rear hub spacing: 135mm, Hub type: QR, Brakes: Disc, IS, Bottom bracket shell: English threads, 68mm wide.