Time spent building others’ dream bikes doesn’t leave much room for a new bike for the builder themselves, but every now and then an opportunity presents itself and the builder gets a new bike all for themselves. This bike is one such opportunity.

Our most recent customer (who has asked to go by “E”) approached us with a very clear request on what she wanted in her new bike: disc brakes, a comfortable ride, and a bike she wouldn’t need to replace for a long time.

Inspired by the Arizona Desert and painted with care, the Albatross Abomination for ENelson gets a custom paintjob.

We come from a background of off-road racing so we knew that our take on a gravel bike wouldn’t be a simple tweaking of a road bike for more tire clearance a calling it good. We wanted to build a mountain-bikers gravel bike.

Single speed MTBs are near the pinnacle of cycling minimalism so when we were asked to design a frame from the ground-up to be our take on the ultimate single speed, how could we resist?

After testing our last DIAero P-03 prototype gravel frame for a little over half a year, we decided that for the upcoming Cyclocross season we would be better served by developing our own take on a race-specific CX frame.

...this bike approaches turns with relish, simply itching to be carved hard around off-cambers and thrown head-long into steep trails where most XC bikes would have no purpose being.