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Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts
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While the real news from Sage Titanium is the introduction of their first mountain bike, we’re starting with a gallery of the 13.2lb Skyline road bike build. There’s a parts list at the bottom with specifics, but the project achieves that low weight with extensive use of THM, Lightweight and SRAM parts. The price? Heh, heh, keep reading…

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

They could have shed another 100g or so by going without paint, but, I mean, c’mon. This thing looks amazing.

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Slam that stem? Hell yeah, and that’ll save a few more grams.

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Sage Titanium 14lb Skyline ti road bike with Lightweight wheels and THM cockpit parts

Like the idea of a lightweight ti road bike but want to future proof it? Look for a disc brake version of the Skyline to debut next year. Want this one? Retail price would be $20,000 as shown.

Sage Titanium Flow Motion trail hardtail

For Sage’s first ever mountain bike, they brought production back to Portland, OR, where any custom models are also being made. All new models will be made there, too. Using the big mountains just to their east as inspiration, this new Flow Motion long travel hardtail is designed to run anything from a 120mm to 150mm fork.

Sage Titanium Flow Motion ti hardtail mountain bike with long travel fork for trail riding and enduro

Sage Titanium Flow Motion ti hardtail mountain bike with long travel fork for trail riding and enduro

It’s made for 1x drivetrains only and has stealth routing for a dropper post – 150mm posts for Small and Medium frames, 170mm for Large and XL.

Sage Titanium Flow Motion ti hardtail mountain bike with long travel fork for trail riding and enduro

It can run 27.5×2.8 or 29.2.35 tires.

Sage Titanium Flow Motion ti hardtail mountain bike with long travel fork for trail riding and enduro

Sage Titanium Flow Motion ti hardtail mountain bike with long travel fork for trail riding and enduro

MSRP for frame only is $3,900, made in small batches. Complete bikes also available.

SageTitanium.com

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ira
ira
5 years ago

That parts list would make any bike light, let us know what the frameset weighs.

DRosen
5 years ago
Reply to  ira

The frame weighs 1496 grams and is made here in the US with custom paint being done in Colorado for this particular frame.

Dolan Halbrook
Dolan Halbrook
5 years ago

Named after (and tested on) the trail at Sandy Ridge, I presume.

DRosen
5 years ago
Reply to  Dolan Halbrook

You are correct.

Veganpotter
Veganpotter
5 years ago

Yup, what’s the frame weigh? Hey look, we can charge $20k for a bike with $16k in superlightweight parts!!! Is this as light as the old noodley Litespeed frames. Or just as light(or lighter) than a moderately stiff, triple-butted SEVEN?
There are NO details about the actual frame. This may as well be a Chinese Ti frame

DRosen
5 years ago
Reply to  Veganpotter

Frame weight is 1495 grams and made here in the USA. No Chinese stuff here. The frame is plenty stiff and has a super solid ride. While the frame could be lighter, we wanted to make something that would stand up to whatever you could throw at it. The parts that are on the frame made it a fun project for us to build and show off as to what we are capable of doing for our clients.

badbikemechanicx
badbikemechanicx
5 years ago

A 20k bike with international standard brake mounts? Moving on.

suede
suede
5 years ago

Whats up with that Red derailleur position?

DRosen
5 years ago
Reply to  suede

Customers come over and shift the bike when no one is looking. Guess we missed that for the pictures. Good catch…

Barry Muzzin
Barry Muzzin
5 years ago

The paint job on the Skyline is beautiful!

Douglas McSaladbath
Douglas McSaladbath
5 years ago

This build makes no sense. It’s like the plan was to make a pretty light bike but not the lightest we can. Use some light stuff but not all of the light stuff. Did they run outa money for the build at 16k? Bars? Seat post? non segmented brake cables? Saddle? seat post clamp…Stem… The extralight stem is 10 g lighter and $350.00 cheaper…

Cheese
Cheese
5 years ago

So who’s welding Sage frames now?

Sonneur
5 years ago

These are made by Lynskey, aren’t they? Not ‘Portland made’?

Cheese
Cheese
5 years ago
Reply to  Sonneur

In the video Dave says they brought the frame fabrication “in house” back to Portland, but didn’t specify what that means.

Scott
Scott
5 years ago

Should be chainstay mounted flat mount but…Even if you do seatstay mounted IS, you should make the hose come from top of the bike and via the seat stay. That jump from the chainstay to the seatstay is not ok with me.

Urs
Urs
5 years ago

Do they take Diners Club?

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