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.

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.