bran mere's c-thru carbon bicycle

there’s several feet of snow still on the ground although it’s gradually, oh so gradually melting and evaporating away (although i hear we’re getting a few centimetres today) and the only guys you see out on bikes have a look about them that compels you to give them lots and lots of room and don’t - whatever you do - don’t look them in the eye. but the heart grows fonder for what is oh-so-close and yet so-very-far-away and that would be a dry warm road with a bike being propelled by my very own whipcord legs.

to assuage that craving i’ve been wandering around the ‘net looking for a bike for this summer as i have a trip planned that requires a touring bike. i’ve pretty much set my heart on one but i’m keeping my options open. the final choice will be revealed on this blog when the big purchase happens. for now though i’d like to share a bike that genetically is a distant cousin of the previously featured arantix.

developed by bran meres engineering and design, the carbon c-thru road frame has a much more linear geometric structure than the arantix. for that reason, to my eyes it is less appealing if only because it resembles crane gantries in its uniformity. having said that, i think that if i were lined up at a tri or a 100k race and saw this badboy pull up i’d be quaking in my clip-ons.