Tupelo Full Build - Shimano Ultegra Di2 & carbon wheels

Quite possibly our most popular build at Landrace Studios.

Shimano’s Ultegra Di2 electric groupset does 99% of everything that their top end Dura Ace groupset does but for much better value; when we combine it with our hand built carbon RDEE 35 wheels (35mm deep rims laced to Hope's wonderful Pro5 hubset) the ride can be described as sensual, smooth, responsive; everything you are no longer.

The cockpit is Deda Elementi’s aluminium Zero 100 handlebar with comfy, vibration absorbing Cinelli Chubby bar tape. A good quality weatherproof Wheels Manufacturing T47 bottom bracket will keep on spinning through the winter. Tyres are our mechanic’s favourite Continental GP 5000 28mm and can be set up with inner tubes or tubeless.

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.