Tupelo Frameset
Jules and Phil have decades of experience designing custom frames with the foremost titanium builders in the industry – Seven, Serotta and Passoni to name but a few. Consequently, they returned to titanium for their own debut model - Tupelo.
The unassuming metal belies a cocktail of properties that are addictive to the adventurous cyclist: strength, comfort, lightness and longevity. The Tupelo is made by one of the very few companies in the Far East that have become specialists working with the famously recalcitrant metal. The gold-standard recipe for titanium bicycle frames is to blend pure titanium with 3% aluminium and 2.5 vanadium to give the hallowed Titanium 3AL-2.5V equation.
Using their twenty plus years of bike fitting and custom design Phil and Jules designed the following into the Tupelo frame:
Sensible stack & reach
A comfortable rider is an efficient rider. The Landrace geometry will put your handlebars in just the right place so you can ride all day. The frame is shorter and higher than any other frame on the market.
Stable handling
Beyond everything Tupelo is designed to look after you. Even when you have strayed somewhere you shouldn't! Responsive enough to be fun, stable enough to inspire confidence.
Low bottom bracket
Hands the pilot a huge dose of poise and bike handling confidence they have never felt before. Fast and technical descents are taken with ease.
Tyre clearance
The Tupelo is at home on the road or on light gravel, the frame and fork are optimised for 28mm plus road tyres and up to 38mm gravel tyres.
Short chainstays
Long enough for a 38mm gravel tyre, or a 28mm road tyre with mudguards; short enough to provide great power transfer out the saddle and quick out of the corners.
Seat Angle
Steeper than many bikes on the market, it means your hips are more open for better pedalling and you are more balanced on the bike.
Material
Titanium
Delivery & Returns
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Lead time
Warranty
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Specification
Geometry
Jules and Phil have decades of experience designing custom frames with the foremost titanium builders in the industry – Seven, Serotta, Passoni, No22 etc. Consequently, they returned to titanium for their own debut model - Tupelo. The unassuming, metal belies a cocktail of properties that are addictive to the adventurous cyclist: strength, comfort, lightness and longevity.
“Just tell me when. It doesn't matter where.” We conceived LANDRACE Tupelo to be a rider’s default pick for any ride. Our unique geometry will ensure you are completely functional and comfortable. 3AL, 2.5V Titanium gives LANDRACE globe-trotting immortality. And our painstaking design, the features you will need to cross the city everyday or cross a continent when bigger dreams get actioned.
Testimonials
Stephen
You have a real winner!
Sarah
The 400 mile test-ride!
Tupelo Review - Cyclist Magazine
Landrace is the brainchild of Phil Cavell and Julian Wall, two bike-fit pioneers who founded bike-fit studio Cyclefit back in the mid-1990s. In their 50-plus cumulative years of experience, the pai...