Lynskey Releases SRAM Red Color Matched Limited Edition Signed Helix OS Ti Road Bike

I wonder if they crack faster with the red paint.

American made ti frame that will last forever in the same price range as Taiwanese carbon….haters gonna hate.

I’d like to see some actual data showing how the twisted tube changes performance characteristics.

i might buy one if they didn’t have those ridiculous helix tubes. strictly a marketing gimmick

Built flat on a table instead of in a jig too. Haters gonna comment.

P.S. Enve has a fork with crown that looks right with that HT, instead of not right like this one.

helix tubes=70% failure rate. wanna make it stiffer? make it bigger. i cannot begin to tell you how crappy these things are.

not only very ugly, boring as well!

Your counterpoint is that knoxvillians are fat? Come on by, we will be happy to ride with you. It’s true a food truck shows up at local rides…oh god, we are fat!

I feel sorry for who ever pays full price or for shipping for this pile of cheap chinese titanium. they’re quick to discount and offer a deal so good it will only happen “today”. if you live close to one of their dealers don’t worry they’ll under cut them and sell you direct at a cheaper price but only if you promise not to tell the dealer or bring it in to their shop. it’s happened to my friend that is a good dealer of theirs several times. to make up for it they offer him a free finish upgrade on his next order or some other bs. how is that suppose to help him pay his staff that fit the customer and keep his lights on so he can service the bike and open a warranty claim for the customer when it likely breaks. then when it does break they are going to try and charge the customer for a new paint job, yes they do this, because it is not covered under the frame warranty but will offer some “great deal” on a brushed finish. i don’t understand why he continues to carry their products.

the lack of knowledge coming out of that place is almost as bad as the quality of the materials they use. for someone that sells custom bikes you would think they could help fit you to a stock bike. instead they send you a link to fit yourself using competitive cyclist fit calculator or tell you’re spot on for a medium because youre the same size as them. they also have no clue about the parts they are selling on these bikes. it makes me wonder if anyone there has ever ridden a bike further than 5 miles. what a load of crap.

i have heard all of their materials come from china now, even the cable stops are machined there! same goes for having their seatpost and handle bars made there. i bet them stems are even machined in china.

I love my Lynskey road bike (so far) as well as another Lynskey-built bike for another brand (29er SS), but I will say after my experience purchasing direct from them I would probably consider other builders for my next purchase. For now, it meets my needs and budget to get a well made Ti frame.

The folks at Lynskey are kind of like slick car salesman. I knew what I was buying, in addition to my sizing, so my discussion with Lynskey sales was centered around price and delivery dates rather than frame particulars. Delivery dates were accurate, but they messed up on pricing, and it took nearly 3 weeks to get a portion of my money back, but at least they made it right. However, prior to that, they tried to solve the pricing issue with free product and tried to defend their mistakes with some poor logic. Before the sale they were the most responsive, helpful, and upbeat people you have ever talked to. Once they have made the sale, the attitude and response time changed. The experience definitely left me with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, and left me feeling very uneasy about the thought of ever having to deal with them on a warranty issue (something that is more complicated than simply being overcharged for a frame). I hope they can improve things in this department because I do think they make a good product.

As I mentioned, the bikes have been great, and I love the geometry (aside from the noisy sliding dropouts on my singlespeed).

I also would have to agree about the undercutting their dealers. I don’t even know why they have dealers for their own brand of bikes, why not just stick to a strictly direct model like Canyon if they plan to regularly blow out frames far less than what other dealers can sell a frame for. Knowing this before buying, I didn’t even consider shopping at a Lynskey dealer.

Lynskey had a great name, but it seems like in an effort to increase profit margins, or bring the cost of a Ti frame down, they have introduced a lot of speculation about material sourcing and manufacturing. I think this “unknown” is further tarnishing their name and I hope that they would be more upfront about this stuff. In the end, I trust Lynskey to source quality tubing (wherever it comes from), and place greater emphasis on it being welded domestically, but it would be nice for them to clear the air.