With design taking place in England's South West and construction in the Far East, Superavi aims to produce custom titanium frames that are super fast but also comfortable. The firm has plenty of experience making titanium road frames but the Celer is Superavi’s first foray over the grass verge and into the off-road scene.
As with all of its bikes, geometry is almost entirely customisable using anthropometric measurements taken by the customer with the guidance of Superavi engineers. Your measurements are then recorded using a proprietary FFIT (Frame Fit and Integration Template) system and, finally, your bespoke frame is born.
It’s a pretty neat little process if you’re after something truly individual. Our test frame was a standard medium build for riders not vertically gifted – me, for instance.
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The attention to detail is immediately apparent in the neat welds, a beautifully hand-cast aluminium head badge and the elegantly formed round tubes of the mainframe. The brushed finish on our test bike sets the Ti off wonderfully, giving it an almost mirror-like effect right from the stout tapered head tube, down the slightly kinked down tube, past the neatly braced seat and chainstays, and finishing at the handsomely machined dropouts.
In short, the Celer is quite a stunner, apart from the oddly placed triangular gusset welded between the top tube and seat tube junction. According to Superavi, this increases strength at the juncture as well as providing a convenient and neat area to place the bike’s name, but in our opinion it spoils its otherwise clean lines.
Clear intentions
Untapped trail potential
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