What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to ooh and ahh over. We’re picking the prettiest, the most curious, and the ones with a good story for you to appraise, praise, and maybe look wistfully at.
This week it’s a bike that we’re getting the blame/credit for Anthony having to buy: a Zoceli Naosm 29. Steel full suspension with some interesting tubing going on. If Santa Cruz made the Forth Rail Bridge…?
Why this bike?
I saw your article on ‘if Santa cruz made steel bikes’ and fell in love with it. Found Martin (from Zoceli) on Instagram, emailed him and that was pretty much that.
The hardest thing was actually building it. A few parts from friends (wheels and brakes), and a master builder in Alex Gray makes riding it unreal.
Anthony’s Zoceli Naosm 29 Specification
- Frame: Zoceli Naosm 29
- Fork: Marzocchi
- Shock: Fox factory x2 kashima
- Wheels: Stans’ Flow s1 on neo hubs 🤌
- Tyres: Assegai front, dhr rear
- Chainset: SRAM GX
- Rear Mech: SRAM GX
- Shifters: SRAM GX
- Cassette: SRAM GX
- Brakes: SRAM Guides (soon to be Hope e4’s)
- Bars & Stem: Burgtec Ride High 38’s and mk3 stem
- Grips: Burgtec Bartender
- Seatpost: One up 180mm
- Saddle: Fabric
- Accessories: Crank Bros Mallet Enduro pedals, Hope seat clamp, RRP short mud guard
Anthony says:
It’s mint.
Do you concur with Anthony’s ‘it’s mint’ assessment? How do you feel about that fork/grip colour combo? Does the smiley face head badge make you smile? Are you feeling the urge to go out an buy one too? Head to the comments!
While you’re here, we’d like to draw your attention to our World Bicycle Relief fundraiser. If you’ve experienced the joy of a new bike day, you’ll know how great it is. Now imagine you get given a bike, and it changes your life, giving you and your family access to education, employment or healthcare. Through World Bicycle Relief, you’ve got the power to make that happen, and if you can spare a little, we invite you to make your donation here.
