• Fully compact (sloping) geometry.
Key Features: Overview of tubeset (fully custom design by Sunday) Full 3AL 2.5V. Sloping geometries.
Headtube: Integrated headtube, externally identical to silk road pro, but lightened internally.
Top tube: Double butted rounded triangular section. Increased resistance to out of plane bending and torsional loads. Stiffens front end for out of saddle efforts.
Down tube: Multi worked oversized, ovalised, double butted downtube, vertically flared into headtube, horizontally flared into bottom bracket. Massively increased horizontal stiffness at bottom bracket for a more immediate power transfer. Increased "in line" stiffness to reduce front end flex resulting in more road feel (more immediate handling) and increased braking stiffness.
Seat tube: Oversize double butted seat tube, ovalised into bottom bracket to resist out of plane bending at bottom bracket, maximise weld area. Works with normal band on mech.
Seat stays: Outwardly curved seatstays to increase road feel to the rider when seated, but still act as leaf spring for rider comfort. Ovalised horizontally to greatly increase lateral stiffness. Makes the bike track considerably better when seated and making quick direction changes (missing potholes, flicking round riders in a line out etc etc). helps maintain power transfer for seated peddling. Asymmetrically butted, giving strength and stiffness where it is actually required and no where else. Horizontal ovalisation reduced near seat tube to increase braking stiffness and increase strength of weld to seat tube.
Chainstays; Asymmetrically butted, designed to work together with the seat stays - slightly reduced vertical compliance (as that is provided by the seatstay design), and lateral stiffness carefully calculated to ensure the back wheel stays connected to the road during sprints. Common problem when frames are made very stiff is that the rear wheel skips across the pavement as the riders forces have no where else to be lost due to high modulus frames (esp with stiff deep section wheels). Mondays child is designed to be stiff, but has a "soft spot" on the chainstays to cushion the force and ensure rider power is converted efficiently to the rear wheel and not lost due to skipping...Result is a stiff feeling ride with responsive feedback, but the power goes to making you go forward and not to make your rear wheel skip sideways !
Drop out: Large surface area to maximise weld contact from the unusual shape chainstays. Increased strength and energy transfer.
Bottle cage mounts: Moved to reduce centre of mass.
Cable guides: Simple slots. Less is more..... |