Here is the Nocturnal, Brandon Hoerres' signature frame, we dropped the press release on this a few weeks ago but here is the production version. Two hot colors on this bad boy, Translucent Purple and
Translucent Black. The frame features a tear dropped down tube, yeah we know it looks different, so why? Well Brandon dents the hell out of frames, especially down tubes and we wanted to try come up with something to combat that, after talking with our frame builder and doing some tests we came up with the idea of using a
tear dropped tube. Also as the tube has a larger surface area, this gives us more to weld, giving a really stiff BB junction! And instead of using tubing for the seat and chain stay braces we have used
heat treated plates. Good eh?
Here are the specs:
Material: 4130 Sanko chromoly, double butted toptube and down tear dropped downtube.
Top Tube: 20.75", 21"
Chain stay: 13.75" slammed
Head Tube: 75
Seat Tube: 69 degree
BB Style: Mid
BB Height: 11.5"
Dropouts: heat treated 5mm
Weight: 5.3 lbs