TD40 // 58cm // “SpongeDonkey”

Back in March 2020, right when Covid hit and we were all sitting around wondering what the world was going to look like in the coming years, Rodeo decided to put some of that spare time to use with creative bike paint explorations that would hopefully surprise and entertain people.

Staying creative seemed more productive than feeling paralyzed by doom.

One of the bikes that we mocked up digitally was an exuberant homage to Spongebob Squarepants, and more specifically Patrick Star, which we dubbed the SpongeDonkey. The mockup made a bunch of people smile, and we had a ton of fun with it, and that was that. Recently, we got to talking about paint designs that we still wanted to do, and SpongeDonkey came back up

Five years later, this seemed like the time to make the bike real. We dusted off the mockups and adapted the design from the original TD3 to the TD4.

Adam, one of our fine artists in the paint department, go to work adding a bit more flare and detail, then painstakingly brought the design to life through countless hours of hand masking and detail work.

The end result is the bike you see here today, and once again, SpongeDonkey is making everyone at the office smile. We hope it does the same for you!

In order to bring the frameset to life as a complete bike, Chef Coco continued the flare with an integrated FSA cockpit for a clean, uncluttered look with maximum ergonomics. For tires, he sourced the retina searing and perfectly matching 45mm Gravel King SS tires, themselves mounted on our race proven Rodeo 3.0X carbon wheelset. Shifting duties are flawlessly handled by Sram Rival AXS shiftes tied to a GX Eagle AXS rear derailleur and 10-52 cassette. SpongeDonkey can go anywhere you are crazy enough to take it!

SpongeDonkey is truly a one of a kind bike, and if you adopt it, you’d better be prepared for the countless conversations and smiles that it will kick off everywhere you go for years to come.

It’s ready to roll right now.

A 58cm TD4 will typically fit a ride from 6’0″ to 6’2″.

All Ready To Roll custom painted Rodeos are sold as complete bikes, and they’re offered at advantageous pricing below retail because we pick the paint, we pick the parts, and we build them however makes us happy.