Just in: Genesis Equilibrium Ti

you can get headsets to put 1.125" forks in xx44 headtubes, or straight steerer 1.5" (although I suspect there aren't many straight 1.5" road forks). It's the most versatile headtube standard there is, as far as i know.

The ability to run a tapered fork is just one of the advantages of an xx44 headtube. The increased surface weld area it also brings with it the ability to spec and use a much larger diameter downtube (vs. 1-1/8") and also to utilise a more extreme degree of tube shaping (ovalised toptube). If you want gimmicky, ti and US made, I give you exhibit 001 - Lynsky Helix tubing

Interesting that they went with 105 on a £2.3K bike. I wonder if that'll put anyone off. I'm not saying it should - I gather 105's very good (I wouldn't know, I like Campag) - but you know how fickle people are...

I just need another 200mile exmouth exodus to test mine out on now. Not sure the Knees will agree tho!

I get that you don't like oversized. I think you'd probably better get used to it, even if you don't want it for yourself, because I don't think it's going away. The aftermarket options for forks will grow; that's inevitable, since there's clearly at least one factory in the far east making them already, genesis aren't using their own facility. the more there are, the cheaper they'll become. it's not significantly more costly to produce a tapered fork than it is a straight steerer one.

The Lynskey is US built; the best titanium fabrication I've seen is Chinese. Your mileage may vary.

Weighs in at 18lbs dead as is...

Well I've already got mine..... went for Frame and Fork which is now built up with Ultegra throughout and R650 brakes. Ordered the frame a few weeks ago and it arrived on Wednesday, meant to be my new winter bike, however I got knocked off my Orbea Orca last week by a car which has written it off.
So in the meantime this will be my only steed, and after a quick hour on it last night its bloody amazing! Handles nicely, takes out almost all road buzz (running it on my R Sys SLR's until winter wheels arrive, which are rather stiff)

It doesnt feel any slower than the orca, or much heavier to be honest! So putting that XX44 headtube in makes sense, ill be racing it - circuits and road, doing some sportives and most of my training on it so why not make it stiffer and a little different.

Have to say, the rear end looks amazing in the flesh, its like a ti cervelo...

it's just a tapered fork, it's not as if they've come up with their own proprietary standard. there's plenty of them around and many carbon bikes spec them now so they're only going to get more common, and cheaper.

Bike development's about incremental gains. Dom at Genesis has been speccing the XX44 headset standard on a number of bikes, not just this one, because he believes it's an improvement over an inch eighth one. It's just a bigger diameter tube, I doubt it adds a great deal to the price.

The EqTi is £200 more, list price, than the Lynskey without a fork. so they're more or less comparable in terms of price. I've not ridden the Lynskey but I know people who have who reckon it's a super frame. The Spa Audax gets a fair amount of love too. It's plain gauge rather than double butted titanium, which is a lot cheaper to produce and heavier.

I've got both an original Equilibrium and a titanium "best" bike. But even if I lost one or both of those, I wouldn't buy this. That gimmicky head tube ruins it for me. Maybe if you were a top professional, and it was a bike you'd be pushing to its limits in race conditions, the extra stiffness might just be noticeable, if hardly a race-winner. But this isn't a race bike. So why lumber its prospective owners with a fork that would be very difficult and expensive to replace if crashed? Why force people to buy the fork with the frame - the original Equilibrium didn't. The answer is obvious: they added this feature to help justify the high price. You can get a Lynskey Sportive for several hundred pounds less, and fit a 1 1/8" fork for about 100 quid. Spa Cycles do a titanium audax bike that is 650 pounds cheaper which, although a bit rough around the edges, would be fine for many of the same use cases. But that's the bike industry for you, where you can push your products upmarket by simply increasing the diameter of a few tubes.

Anyone know the weight difference between the Genesis Steel and Ti frames?

Can we have a video review please chaps ?

Is this one of those competitions where you just have to post to be in with a chance of winning it?

we can all dream...

The VN Mistral won't take mudguards - it’s purely a road bike. Probably the VN Yukon is the nearer equivalent at about the same cost as well. Those Tekto brakes are a bit ugly - I'd spec the much smarter Shimano R650's (Ultegra grade). Nice to see proper old school wheels as well - I've just had a pair of those rims built onto Ultegra hubs.

It does look lovely and I'm a fan of Genesis bikes too (we've got 3 in our shed) but is it really £800 better than a Van Nic Mistral?
Looking forward to seeing a more detailed review once you've been riding it a while...

I want this so much it hurts.

I am already a Genesis devotee - owning a Day One Alfine and an iOD SingleSpeed - but have always gone a little more mainstream with my roadbikes (typical Specialized and currently a Tarmac Comp). With this bike though I think I might be able to become custodian of 3 beautiful Genesi (or what ever the plural of Genesis is!). Now where did I put my spare £2300.....

nice... like to know how this compares with the Kinesis GF Ti which is about the same price for the F&F. I like the fact this has long drop brakes though.

there was always an element of 'I'm-not-quite-sure' about Ti bikes for me. Not any more - if I had to get rid of all my bikes now that's the one that would replace them

Disk version to follow or wait for CdF Ti?

Want!