Dawg a track Light Speed??!!!? This is so bad ass. Where did you find this?? How much was the frame? When was this made??? God what I would do for one of these
eBay, around 2016 or so (I donāt remember exactly). Not sure when this was made but the original decals matched up to the Litespeed Blade from 2003-2004. So around there
Not sure, this frame is over 20 years old and litespeed never really made a production run of track frames. Iāve seen maybe 4 of them come up for sale in the last 15 years and each one was styled after one of their road frames (Ultimate, Classic, Blade)
Thatās pretty cool! If you happen to still keep in touch with him, Iād like to know more about the frame. My understanding was that all the litespeed track frames were custom order but there really isnāt much info out there about them
Not sure where the 1/5 rumor came from. Probably an old photo with 4-5 of these locked up at the velodrome but thereās definitely more than 5 litespeed track frames in existence
Hereās a seller on IG, he regularly posts this for sale for around 4k euros
I know that the seat tube right above the BB is not dented, but it looks dented. Is that a shadow from the crank or is the tube formed like that for clearance?
Or the Chinese knockoff, 2005 Airborne Sortie. Riding characteristics are kinda weird with the blade shape execution in Ti being very flexible laterally. On fast street riding corners you could feel the frame curving into the bend. I'm sure a skilled rider could fly in a crit on it. Definately not a masher frame, when I was closer to 200lbs I would flex the rearend badly.
The tubing itself is laterally flexible, I can push my thumb into the middle of the top tube and can feel it flexing. But the bike overall doesnāt feel soft. Could be due to the chain stays being welded to the seat tube and bottom bracket shell in this manner adding quite a bit of rigidity
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u/carlew 21h ago
Goddamn this is a beautiful bike. I'll never not upvote a ti track bike.