Thanks for the mention else I wouldn't have seen it quite so quickly.
I have a 40 cm (c-t) seat tube, sloping top tube (real seat tube length would be more like 48-49 cm), effective 56.5 TT length, 75.5 ST angle, 9.5 cm head tube (which was "as short as possible" - I would have preferred a 6-7 cm head tube so I wouldn't have to use -17 stems, and right now I'd want to have a head tube in the 6 cm range to use a -17 14.5 stem.
Actually I have two of them, both by
Tsunami Bikes. At the time the pricing was pretty low, $650 and $700 I think (included shipping and paint), and I paid more because I thought he was undercharging me by a couple hundred dollars each. I think his frames are in the $850 range and there is no fork. You can look up frame tubing and pretty much ask him to build a frame using whatever aluminum you find (7005 series anyway). I let him pick the tubing in my frame so I honestly have no idea what's in them.
He'll sell you a fork at a discounted rate. I bought an ENVE 2.0 fork for the now-red bike, previously I used a take off fork (orange bike) and I sourced a 3T fork for the black bike.
In 2010, when I first received and built up the then-orange bike, I had probably the second best year of my life, earning, for the first time, my upgrade to Cat 2. At that point I'd been racing 28 seasons. I got the black bike in 2011 and wanted to see if I could get some free speed from the frame. No go but it looks cool. I downgraded to Cat 3 at the end of 2011 as we wanted to start a family (Junior showed up in early 2012). Definitely a sprinter, can't climb, can't TT.
Current original bike (was orange, now red). I had the stays shortened to 39 cm (39.3 cm was shortest possible) because the long front end meant the rear wheel skittered even when I was coasting in normal fast turns (30 mph, 90 degrees, not narrow roads). I went to compact bars which are 3 cm shorter in reach and 3 cm higher in terms of drop. I have a 14.5 cm -32 stem and that puts the drops in the same place as with the original bars (12 cm stem, regular crit bend bars).
Both bikes, red paint indicates stays were shortened. Notice how high the drops are on the red bike - compact bars, 14 cm stem, -17. Black bike has same geometry, slightly taller seat tube due to the aero tubing, 39.0 cm chainstays (which is really nice).
The red bike when it was orange. Normal 40.5 cm stays, way too long. I built the bike at what I called my SoCal training camp (I live in CT, visited my former teammate and still close friend for 2-3 weeks in Jan/Feb of 2004-2011) so I needed some shop assistance building up the black bike. I rode with the frame around my neck to the shop to get the headset cups installed.
