Hoefer Cycles: Tramontana (6kg steel)

[jobvisser]

This bike looks sick, really like the fading color combinations

[Slammed]

Damn, that's nice. That frame weight is also pretty impressive for regular steel tubes.

[Zac36100]

love the holes in read mech and bottle cage
They looks like when we drill hole in scooter to make it "faster"?

[LewisK]

Surprised you haven't drilled the rims Stunning bike btw!

[FIJIGabe]

Fantastic build! I'm intrigued by your decision to use a BB mounted rear brake, rather than a DM brake, mounted on the seatstays. Not criticizing, just curious.

[hoefercycles]

Fantastic build! I'm intrigued by your decision to use a BB mounted rear brake, rather than a DM brake, mounted on the seatstays. Not criticizing, just curious.

The tall chainstays and proximity to the bb shell will make for a stiffer platform for the brake vs a seatstay mount. I doubt I would have been able to use 0.7mm wall thickness seatstays had I been hanging a brake on them.

My own personal view is that seatstays are required to exist, but only just barely, and I try to use them as flourish to add some interesting visual character to the bike rather than calling on them to perform work better suited to other tubes. All disc brake frames I build utilize a low-mount for the same reason. That and I think low-mount calipers give a cleaner bike overall; better cable runs (no large swooping arcs up from the chainstay or single lines run along otherwise naked seatstays).

[brusselsprouts]

Absolutely stunning!!!

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[colster]

WOW! Probably the most original build that's been posted on here for a while, chapeau sir!
Do you have weights for components pre and post drilling?

[flying]

Very Nice

Congrats

[FIJIGabe]

Fantastic build! I'm intrigued by your decision to use a BB mounted rear brake, rather than a DM brake, mounted on the seatstays. Not criticizing, just curious.

The tall chainstays and proximity to the bb shell will make for a stiffer platform for the brake vs a seatstay mount. I doubt I would have been able to use 0.7mm wall thickness seatstays had I been hanging a brake on them.

My own personal view is that seatstays are required to exist, but only just barely, and I try to use them as flourish to add some interesting visual character to the bike rather than calling on them to perform work better suited to other tubes. All disc brake frames I build utilize a low-mount for the same reason. That and I think low-mount calipers give a cleaner bike overall; better cable runs (no large swooping arcs up from the chainstay or single lines run along otherwise naked seatstays).

I can appreciate your reasons. Others on the board have been critical of the BB mounted brakes, in the past, but I've never had an issue with them. The build is definitely very nice!

[micky]

I didnt have any issue with BB rear brake as long as I had a very stiff wheel (lw) anyway totally understand the owner's decision and the result is surely stunning!
Loving it!

[mike]

very nice, i am assuming you did the drilling for aesthetic reasons, given that you do not need to save every little microgram on a steel bike.

[CLEAR]

Superb build... everything is as it should and looked flawlessly executed

Hint: and perfectly my size, just changed 70.8mm seat-belt

[Noctiluxx]

What a beauty!

[synchronicity]

I am not a fan of the drillium approach. Sorry!
even despite that, impressively low weight considering the steel frame.