I have a carbon frame, but
it's 54cm in size, which is too large for me to ride.
↑This is an image from a 2012 headquarters tour that appeared on a site called bikeradar.com,
and I have the exact same frame hanging on that wall (same color too),
plus a brand new, unused front wheel from a ZIPP 303.
I'm not really looking for buyers or anything,
but when I told a customer about this,
they didn't believe me when I said I had one,
so I figured, alright then, just wait a minute and I'll upload some photos
↑This is it.
I shot it from roughly the same angle as the opening image.
Specialized Allez Epic Carbon.
It's a 1991 model, and the 54 size is center-to-center,
so center-to-top would be around 56cm.
The top tube length is 545mm, but there's no need to convert it to horizontal equivalent.
It's a horizontal (straight tube) frame.
There are absolutely no traces of parts being attached.
It's novel how they're not hiding the "Made in Taiwan" marking—they're plastering it right there in big letters.
The Epic model name didn't first appear on XC full-suspension frames.
The bottom bracket lug uses an inner-lug construction method
where carbon tubes are inserted into convex aluminum lugs,
but the lugs at both ends of the top tube and at the head tube end of the down tube are
outer-lug style—the same as steel frames—and not just that,
they've engineered a shape that doubles as an inner lug as well,
which increases the bonding surface area.
Naturally, this has the downside of adding weight,
but in that era, aluminum lug/carbon tube frames
frequently experienced problems with tubes pulling out of lugs—
far more than nowadays.
it's 54cm in size, which is too large for me to ride.
↑This is an image from a 2012 headquarters tour that appeared on a site called bikeradar.com,
and I have the exact same frame hanging on that wall (same color too),
plus a brand new, unused front wheel from a ZIPP 303.
I'm not really looking for buyers or anything,
but when I told a customer about this,
they didn't believe me when I said I had one,
so I figured, alright then, just wait a minute and I'll upload some photos
↑This is it.
I shot it from roughly the same angle as the opening image.
Specialized Allez Epic Carbon.
It's a 1991 model, and the 54 size is center-to-center,
so center-to-top would be around 56cm.
The top tube length is 545mm, but there's no need to convert it to horizontal equivalent.
It's a horizontal (straight tube) frame.
There are absolutely no traces of parts being attached.
It's novel how they're not hiding the "Made in Taiwan" marking—they're plastering it right there in big letters.
The Epic model name didn't first appear on XC full-suspension frames.
The bottom bracket lug uses an inner-lug construction method
where carbon tubes are inserted into convex aluminum lugs,
but the lugs at both ends of the top tube and at the head tube end of the down tube are
outer-lug style—the same as steel frames—and not just that,
they've engineered a shape that doubles as an inner lug as well,
which increases the bonding surface area.
Naturally, this has the downside of adding weight,
but in that era, aluminum lug/carbon tube frames
frequently experienced problems with tubes pulling out of lugs—
far more than nowadays.