Our smiling Ti Spork is available now! But first, the story:
For about a decade, Rodeo has been offering our Spork adventure bike forks on our own bikes and others. The name “Spork” has always been a wink to the fact that our bike forks are simply more capable and versatile than the rest in much the same way that the Spork utensil is more versatile than either a fork or a spoon.

As soon as we created the smiling Spork logo we wanted to also offer a smiling Spork utensil, but we were never able to solve how to make it efficiently. We joked that a laser cut smile would look incredibly cool, but would also make untensil useless for eating soup. We thought about having the smile embossed into the fork, but to do that meant creating special tooling and ordering 5,000 Sporks. As popular as our Spork is, we don’t think the market is quite that large. We considered painting and anodizing the smile as well, but all of that would have made the Spork utensil too expensive to justify.

Finally, this year, in a seventeen hour all hands on deck marathon meeting, we finally solved it: What if the smile was brushed and bright, and the rest of the Spork was satin, the way pretty much every titanium Spork in the world already was?

When we tested the idea on a single Spork, the results spoke for themselves: we’d done it. We split the atom. We acheived nuclear fission. We solved global warming. The little smile on the Spork made us smile. If we’ve accomplished nothing else in the last 12 years, the smiling Spork utensil made it all worth it.

We create each smiling Spork utensil here in our Denver HQ. They’re made of titanium, and are finished by hand in small batches. Lead time will be 1-4 days to ship each order, which allows for a new batch to be made if we’ve run out.

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Once a Rodeo always a Rodeo. Nothing brings a smile to our face more than seeing a precious model refreshed and ready to ride. Matt’s TD3.1 took a pre-owned frame and brought it up to spec with a fresh FSA cockpit, serviced Rodeo 2.0 carbon wheels, a GEX electronic groupset that modernized the ergonomics and drivetrain, and a new Spork 3.2 that shaved some grams and upped the mud clearance.

3.1 still cuts a striking figure, and those who own them know that they’re just as fast and nimble on their feet now as they were when released in 2018!

Happy Renewed Bike Day, Matt!

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We’ve named this 58cm ready-to-roll Flaanimal 5.0 “Infinite Vice”, which is a literary nod to the kind of open-ended journeys where the road dissolves into possibility, and a fascinating new story unfolds with each pedal stroke.

The graphic layout of the bike, rendered in vinyl decals over the naked black 5.0 frame, is a one-off design by Andy, the newest memeber of the Rodeo team, and build pairs retro-futurist visuals with the crisp mechanical honesty of a Campagnolo Ekar groupset. Rodeo-Labs 2.0 carbon rims, laced to 3.0 hubs are shod in fast, efficient, and reliable 38mm Panaracer GravelKing SK - keeping things fast and sure-footed.

If you hunger for less smooth roads, the 5.0 frameset has Tour Divide winning pedigree, and can fit rubber as large as 700 x 2.1” or 650b x 2.35” - when conditions require and allow.

This is a bike built for narrative arcs—for detours, impulse rides, and terrain that challenges both your legs and perspective.

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A Flaanimal 5.0 in 58cm best fits riders from 6’0” to 6’2”, on average, or 183cm to 188cm.

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All ready-to-roll Rodeo Labs bikes ship immediately, and worldwide.

Ready-to-roll bikes are offered at advantageous pricing because we pick the build spec, parts, and build design.

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