MT Touring
TET Mountain Touring (TomET Touring)
Here is a practical design that you don’t see often, a touring mountain bike. Most high end mountain bikes use a cross country racing geometry that was developed on the race circuits over the years. Like the touring road frame the mountain touring frame has longer chainstays, shorter top tube and more relaxed angles.
The Mountain Touring comes in three flavors Light Touring, Standard Touring and Expedition.
Light Touring uses the same tubing as the TomET.
Standard Touring has larger tube diameters and increased wall thickness for fully loaded (self contained) off road touring.
Expedition is beefy, reliable, and has the highest load capacity I can make using quality butted tubing.
Construction
- TIG welded, oversized steel or aluminum
- Sloping top tube (top tube joins seat tube 3″ below top of seat tube)
- 1 1/8″ headset
- Breeze-In Drop outs with eye
- 1.5″ od cromoly 68 mm bb shell
- Slide on forward facing seat collar
- 135mm rear spacing
- 26/2.2 tires
- Built to fit the fork of your choice or we will build one for you.
Standard braze ons
- 3 water bottle mounts
- Triple stops on top of top tube
- Single stops under right seat stay
- Single stop on back of seat tube
- V-brake bosses
- Rack mounts
- Chainrest
- Fender mounts in bridges
Options
- Double drop outs eyes
- More water bottles if possible
- Derailleur wires under down tube instead of on top of the top tube
- cantilever brake arch
*alumium frames do not use head tube rings, Breeze-In drop outs or chain rest and use a slide on clamping collar.
Suggested tubing