Big old Rodeo shout out to @onegearjeremy for keeping the TD4 win streak going in the Big Sugar singlespeed race this weekend! Fat tires, chunky roads, and high speeds are served up in heavy portions at this top tier event on the gravel race calendar and Jeremy put his legs, lungs, and TD4 to great use out there. Giddyup!

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It’s been at least a few months since we’ve had a Ready To Roll Rodeo Labs on offer. Time simply hasn’t allowed for us to play around with fun builds. A funny thing happened recently though. While in Italy at our Summer Camp, we happened upon a bike shop in the Dolomites selling a beautifully custom painted 52cm Flaanimal 5.0 frameset. Nobody in the area really knew what Rodeo was, or what to make of the fame, so it sat unsold for a good spell. Meanwhile, back in the USA, we sold out 52cm Flaanimal 5.0 framesets months ago, and desperately wish we had more to offer.

Inspiration hit: Why not adopt this Italian Flaanimal frameset and bring it home to the USA?
Not content to stop there, we decided to build it up with an awesome parts spec and offer it as a Ready To Roll build.

The result is a truly one of a kind Flaanimal, and you’ll never see another like it out in the wild. The beautiful marble effect wet paint was done by hand in Italy by the legendary frame painter Tony Spray. The luscious high gloss wet coat pops in a way that our typical satin coated Flaanimals do not.

The build kit is exactly perfect for the modern gravel rider, using the newest Sram Rival XPLOR 1×13 speed gravel groupset, with generous 10-46 gearing in the rear. The crankset is the pro-level carbon Praxis Doon. The wheels are hand built Rodeo carbon wheels on robust and reliable 3.0 hubs. The saddle is also Italian made, coming from our friends at Selle Repente.

Again, there are no more 52cm steel Flaanimals left in Rodeo USA inventory, and there won’t be any more arriving before Febrary or March, so if you’re in the market for a 52cm Flaanimal 5.0, this beauty might just be the ticket.

Ready To Roll bikes always have reduced pricing because we select the paint and the parts that we want to build with. The bike is available for immediate shipping. Worldwide shipping available – but if it goes back to Italy we’re going to have a laugh!

Rodeo-labs.com / Ready To Roll bikes
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A 52cm Rodeo typically fits a rider 5’6″ to 5’8″, or 167cm to 173cm.

Inspired by one of the all time great @ornotbike jerseys, Evan’s 6 Ti pops with purple, baby blue, and yellow hits - all over a brushed Titanium canvas. Evan was feeling extra ambitious, so he asked us to tie the whole room together a set of Rodeo 3.0X wheels laced to custom coated @dtswiss 240 hubs.

Y’all know the rule: Titanium should never be painted, or not.

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When our lead painter slows down long enough to paint and build his own Flaanimal 6 Ti, you might think he’d cut loose and throw everything he has at it. If you’ve seen the range of layouts and designs that Brad has brought to life in recent years, you know the sky is the limit. But instead of going wild on this bike, Brad dialed it back with something more classy, understated, and long lasting. Step one was to reinterpret not just the Flaanimal logo, but to also design and lay out other custom iconography representing different aspects of his life. Coffee? Yes. Click beetle? Yes. Mysterious feminine hand holding a glowing heart with some sort of fire thing happening on top? Yes, that too.

Next up, the type treatment. Angular, graphic, and very pink.

All this over brushed Ti, with absolutely pops. Brad went for a titanium stem and seatpost, a hand polished Rodeo Quite Nice Headset, and a custom Blade Runner inspired topcap.

Some paint designs and builds shut loudly. Others are quietly confident. Brads is… exactly Brad’s.

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Northern Lights is the most ephemeral color that we use at Rodeo. It has blue-green darker tones combined with tan colored highlights. It’s a nightmare to to photograph and capture, but in real life the effect is sublime, and worth the effort.

Judy’s design didn’t stop with the color. She added a few more personalized design touches which recall her background in mid century design, as well as themes from life at large in the form of icons and the verse on the seat tube.

Love is the power.

Happy New Bike Day, Judy!

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