Lynskey 2012 Sportive with free mill finish. If you not racing, just enjoy high quality riding. This is the frame for you.

Lynskey 2011 SPORTIVE

Designed specifically for medium to long endurance road riding, the Sportive is the perfect bike for Century rides, Gran Fondo’s, and of course….Cyclosportive racing. A well balanced geometry not only provides day long comfort but is also very stable on long twisty descents.

Sportive Features

• Curved seatstays for added comfort
• Endurance oriented geometry allows more comfortable riding position
• Mudguard mounts keep you riding in all weather conditions
• Rack mounts should you choose to carry extra gear
• Short reach brake design allow a wide choice of braking systems
• 700c wheels
• 34.9 clamp-on front derailleur
• 130mm rear spacing
• 27.2mm seatpost for added comfort
• 68mm English bottom bracket
• Clearance for 28c tire (25c when using mudguards)
• Shamrock Dropouts
• Downtube Shifter Cable Routing with adjusters on downtube for easy access
• 1 1/8" headtube

Standard Finish is Natural Matte Satin with choice of Lynskey decals.

Southern Comfort:
Review by David Hopkins ( bicyclebuyer.com )
We get regular emails from readers asking for help with buying THE bike. This mythical creature has to be the be all and end all, the durable, do it all road bike on which they can spend a modest fortune, but can finally draw a line under their bike purchasing for good. It must combine pedestrian-halting good looks and dazzling performance with metronomic reliability and above all THE bike must be nigh on indestructible. Well, we're sad to report that THE bike doesn't exist. Sadly it's human nature to have our head turned by this new thing and that, however good the bike is we have sitting in the shed. And looks, performance and resilience are often awkward shed fellows. But the nearest thing to THE bike is probably made of titanium, and it's definitely made by Lynskey.

Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lynskey Bikes are arguably THE Titanium frame builders. Having produced bikes under the Litespeed moniker, after that brand's eventual sale, the Lynskey family decided to get back in the game and do what they do best, designing and hand building Titanium bikes that offer the bulk of what defines THE bike many of our readers so desire. Performance, durability, stunning good looks and what equates to the bike equivalent of immortality. Titanium is lighter than aluminum or steel, incredibly stiff if worked properly, resilient, rust proof and if you scratch it in its raw state it can be buffed pretty much as good as new. And while it looks good when made to use a watch bezel it's absolutely stunning when used to build a bike's frame.

Realistically we could have chosen any one of the road frame styles Lynskey lovingly craft from 3al-2.5v Ti (and please don't get us started on the MTBs and the new single speed), but it's the Sportive that we've earmarked as THE bike. Well it's actually THE FRAME should we say, as the rest of the build will be up to you.

Using their existing Cooper frame's sport-orientated geometry as a starting point Lynskey has increased the head tube size and lengthened the chain stays in order to offer a more upright and realistic riding position for the mere mortal, and perfect for lengthy hours in the saddle on a charity ride or Sportive event.  Increasing rider comfort is definitely the name of the game here, and the radically bowed/curved seat stays, further this aim.

Also allowing clearance for mudguards (fenders), even if you're running 25c tires, the Lynskey Sportive would, along with being THE bike for many people, also make an ideal Winter training bike for made of money, faux-pro road riders.

Combining that aforementioned level of comfort with incredibly responsive handling and a lightness of touch, as soon as we swung a leg over our built up test version of the Sportive we were inspired. Offering the rider formidable power transfer, this Titanium frame is stiff in all the right places and urges, nay demands that you keep upping your cadence and ratchet up the speed. Slicing it's way across the road surface, the emphasis Lynskey has place on ride comfort is tangible as the Sportive soaks up the worst the road has to offer rather than passing it onto you.

Formidable as aluminum, but without the buzzy ride quality and as quick and responsive as many carbon frames, Lynskey has produced a bike that we defy you to ride and then not utter the simple words, 'want one'. And that's just the ride quality, if we were to get onto the timeless good looks of the Sportive we could be here for quite a while. Just look at those clover-leaf drop-outs!

Prices for start at $1595.00 U.S. for the frame in the standard Natural Matte Satin finish and increase incrementally depending on the finish options you go. Not cheap we know, but as the foundation of THE bike it's arguably money well spent.