Tupelo Full Build - Campagnolo Ekar

Sale price£5,325.00

Phil and Jules have equipped their award winning Tupelo frameset with Campagnolo's 1x13 Ekar groupset that has a gear range equivalent to a normal double chainring groupset. It is great for road and off-road riding and has an old fashioned gear cable so maintenance is very easy, no need to charge this bike before a ride.

The Fulcrum Racing Red gravel wheels have an internal width of 24mm and easily accommodate the 35mm Panaracer Gravel King SK+ slick tyres for a smooth, silky ride with plenty of grip.

The cockpit is their favourite by Deda Elementi and uses their very comfortable gravel bars that have a 12 degree flare. 

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

Size: Small

Size

Full Spec

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.

By making Tupelo’s set-in point a 32mm tyre and fitted mudguards, we have facilitated just enough real-estate for a 38mm gravel tyre for when winter rain turns to desert dust.

And by carefully drafting Tupelo to be both shorter and snappier than a gravel bike, we have preserved vital road-speed, where most of us inevitably ride some of the time.

The LANDRACE Tupelo has been designed to look after you wherever you are in the world, from a wet commute in January to an expedition in July. And back home again. Year upon year.

Tupelo Rear Triangle

The Intersection of Power, Comfort & Control! Tupelo has been designed to shrug-off all year round big miles and always scrub-up like new. 32mm tyres and mudguards in the winter and up to 38mm for three-season adventures. 3AL-2.5V seat and chainstays are meticulously engineered so your back wheel drops in and out with ease. They are also comfortable, indestructible and minimally stunning.

Precise stacked-coin welds

Titanium is a famously recalcitrant material to work with. We work with the finest fabricator in Asia, who are reassuringly titanium specialists. Their precision craftsmanship is epitomised by their reliably beautiful ‘stacked-coin’ welds. They also make our minimal Cyclefit x-ray seat-clamps.

Downtube

The downtube is effectively the engine-room of a bicycle frame. Tupelo’s toptube is subtly dramatic, ever-changing along its length and architecturally stunning. A lot of engineering packing in one highly significant tube.

Tupelo Rear Triangle

The Intersection of Power, Comfort & Control! Tupelo has been designed to shrug-off all year round big miles and always scrub-up like new. 32mm tyres and mudguards in the winter and up to 38mm for three-season adventures. 3AL-2.5V seat and chainstays are meticulously engineered so your back wheel drops in and out with ease. They are also comfortable, indestructible and minimally stunning.

Precise stacked-coin welds

Titanium is a famously recalcitrant material to work with. We work with the finest fabricator in Asia, who are reassuringly titanium specialists. Their precision craftsmanship is epitomised by their reliably beautiful ‘stacked-coin’ welds. They also make our minimal Cyclefit x-ray seat-clamps.

Downtube

The downtube is effectively the engine-room of a bicycle frame. Tupelo’s toptube is subtly dramatic, ever-changing along its length and architecturally stunning. A lot of engineering packing in one highly significant tube.

Testimonials

Stephen

You have a real winner!

"Delighted with just how responsive Tupelo is when you are sprinting flat out - and it is so well balanced you can really chuck it into the corners with confidence.
So, I’ve now ridden in fast and hard, slow and leisurely, off road on trails and single track and at the velodrome and it has performed brilliantly every time.
Bravo, I think you have a real winner!"

Sarah

The 400 mile test-ride!

"The bike has been great. Very comfy, smooth and responsive. 767km and 8580m of climbing and it’s properly broken in!

P.s. several experienced cyclists in my group admiring the bike and wanting to know more."

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Tupelo Review - Cyclist Magazine

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...