15% lighter. - Accelerate quicker, easier to climb with and easier to load on your car.

39% stiffer at the head tube. – More responsive for a better ride and more confidence in the corners and high speed descents.

7% stiffer vertically – We did not want to add too much vertical stiffness to keep the ride comfortable.

Better water bottle placement – Five nearly vertical bottle locations are easier to reach and help keep the sticky drink residue from building up on your frame.

Fewer S&S couplers on “Global” models and bigger open spaces between frame tubes. – If you have ever packed a S&S bike into one case, you have probably had a tough time keeping the axles away from the lateral tube. It is always right in the middle of the case and in your way.

The ride characteristics are impressive to say the least.

This has not been done in the past because until very recently the technology to manufacture the long, multi-butted, larger diameter tubes needed to make this work either did not exist or was not readily available to the bicycle industry.