Boardman Team FS Frame - Sizes 16 inch, 18 inch and 19 inch frames. Boxed and completely new condition. Designed for 130mm travel fork.
Lightweight alloy triple butted with Smooth Welds. Drop outs for QR axle. For English threaded bottom bracket - 68mm shell.Headset FSA Orbit C-40 ACB (or similar). 1.1/8'' to 1.1/2'' Tapered - Integrated (not included). Tapered steerer tube fork required with 130mm travel.
Recommended rear shock - RockShox Monarch RT - 130mm Travel - or similar. (Excerpt from Bike Radar review 2011). You could be forgiven for thinking that the FS Team has a carbon?But the way in which the tubes appear to? Ow into one another is a result of clever welding - the FS Team has a butted aluminium frame. The organic joints are the result of a multiple-pass welding process, leaving smooth welds old-school riders will? Nd remarkably similar to the?
Llet-brazing process popular in the early days. Boardman aren't the only manufacturers to use smooth welds, but they've used them heavily - only the bottom bracket joints reveal more familiar weld beads.
The combined effect of tube shaping, external reinforcement and smooth welds is certainly eye-catching. A tapered head tube leads the way, an impressive inclusion at this price, and the top and down tubes are? Ared at the front to put plenty of meat into the head tube area.
At the back, a variant of the four-bar suspension design delivers 130mm of travel. Bike Radar confirm appear to confirm that the length and stroke of the rear shock are 190 x 51mm. Please note this is the best information we can locate therefore this may not be completely correct.
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