I give credit to the boutique builder who knows his craft. I have a Santana Arriva that was modified by removing the lateral tube and moving the canti posts to fit 650B wheels. I also replaced the fork with a custom steel fork . We chose not to place Santana decals on the bike so no one recognizes it as a Santana. That is just as well because I don't expect that Bill at Santana would agree with what we did to his design. When it comes to adapting a bike, steel has an advantage because there are so many qualified people that work with it. Ours was done by a local builder and not shipped across country to the builder.

We love the bike and it didn't take long before we set faster personal bests on our normal routes lowering times on our previously owned stock CoMotion Speedster and Santana Noventa. The 38mm tires at 75-80 psi also give a very comfortable ride compared to tires at 120-130 psi