Drake (Frame/Fork)

(RE-LAUNCHED) An adventure touring frame stout and stable enough for medium duty touring and bikepacking, but also offers an fun and capable 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 (than on 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. 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 42mm)

- 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) (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.