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This beautiful custom Titanium Flaanimal 5 goes out to an amazing human who’s done so much to help build the cycling community: @dqpryor , who founded the much loved @unpavedpennsylvania event. Also known to some as Thunderbear, Dave requested a bold orange Cerakote accent color combined with a unique oak leaf media blast motif on his downtube. Honestly, we’re all just in love with the leaves. We can’t wait to see this bike all built up by the good folks at @patuxent_adventure for our Southern Migration Rally in January.
Welcome to the herd Dave!
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TD3 vs TD4, what changed, what’s better, what’s not? Up on the Rodeo Journal today, Donkey Boy compares his 30,000+ mile TD3 to his 4000+ mile TD4, and weighs in on how the bike has both improved but also is still just a Donkey.
Hit the website and play with the image slider yourself! It’s kind of addictive.
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Remember when we used to dream up weird, interesting builds? We do, and here’s one for the feelz: This 1 of 1 TD4 is painted in a gloss Split Pea green with blue decal accents. Is this color for everyone? No, but ITS PROVOCATIVE, it gets the people going! Even more provocative, but also incredibly functional: The 1x12 Shimano SLX + TRP Hylex RS + Indexed bar end shifter + White Industries drivetrain. This bike will ride up walls and nose wheelie down them with aplomb.
WHAT IS EVEN GRAV? Grav is fun, and so will this bike be, riding on 2.2” 650 Ikons, sporting carpet (gum wall tires) that match the drapes (gum wall brake hoods).
Do you feel inspired? Good. Do you feel rage? Great. Bikes are emotional objects.
This 56cm beauty is available as a ready-to-roll on our website, and if you’re into split pea soup like we are, head over to rodeo-labs.com/shop to find it.
You can also see this build in person at the @topodesigns store in Cherry Creek Mall, Denver, Colorado until it’s sold. If you stop by, take a selfie with the bike and tag us and Topo in a post or a story to be entered in a drawing for a set of matching bar / frame bags.
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#gravelbike
We design and engineered the headset on TD4 for maximum versatility. By rotating the assembly underneath the top plate,0 1, 2, 3, or four routing holes can be opened to allow for any routing configuration. Because integrated headsets inherently allow more water to enter the frame, we use only stainless steel bearing assemblies in our TD4 headsets in order to dramatically increase the service life of the headset. If a fully hidden integrated (hidden) routing system is what you’re into, our frames are compatible with solutions from FSA, Ritchey, King, and others. If you think integrated routing is needlessly vain and difficult to work with, TD4 also supports that classic downtube standard routing that we’ve offered on our frames since the dawn of time. Rodeo frames are built to be maximally versatile and configurable for each owner’s style.
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OUR VALUES
RIDE
Our bikes as hard as we can. Never lose touch with the fact that true inspiration for everything we do comes from time spent in the saddle.
EXPLORE
If we stay where things are familiar we will quickly grow stale. To stay challenged we always seek out the new. New paces to ride, new goals to attempt, and new people to collaborate with.
CREATE
When we return home from our adventures we take our experiences and turn them into things that we can share. Stories, photos, videos, and inspired products are the fruit of our labor.