Originally Posted by
SCTinkering
Noted.
Also the dropouts on that ride are amazing and the lettering being the ti frame color under the powder coat is pretty bad ass too. The last year Salsa made the Colossal Ti they painted it. Suffice to say it didn't sell very well and they ended up dropping the Colossal ti from the line up. 🙁
Mine was built just before the shop started making its own dropouts. Drew was still learning to use the new computerized mill he had recently acquired. The shop is amazing. It's in his parents' former carpet cleaning business. He has a different machine for each part of the frame (e.g., head tubes, bottom bracket shells).
It's not powder coat. It's a ceramic glaze. Cerakote. Lighter and stronger than paint or powder coat. Not shown in the LOVE statue decal on the left chainstay.