'The carbon weave mixed with lime-green highlights is quite striking, but apart from that, there's nothing too unconventional about this 'compact compact' frame if you will (Bates is 169cm tall or 5'7" in the old language), whose top tube measures just 52 centimetres long, centre to centre. Upon closer inspection, possibly the most eye-catching thing is the rear triangle that employs some unusual S-shaped wishbone seat stays, which flare out past the brake mount...' More
