Merlin (Modern) Works XLM swap/offers?

[Wold Ranger]

Fancy putting a bit of bounce in my life and as I have a fleet of decent retro hard tails, putting this up for swaps for a smallish sized top end FS, i.e Orange 5, Turner, Yeti, or Merlin FS WHY? Really want a frame swap but could do whole bike.
22in ctc top, 13.5 seat, 6/4 Ti hand built to order by Tom Kellogg, £2600 '09 price, frame weight is sub 3 pounds, accelerates like a rocket ,stiff but compliant frame. Rare and pretty with it!

 

[Sidewinder]

Bugger would love this but its too small for me ,and my Ellesworth would be too big for you :cry:

 

[Wold Ranger]

Swaps

Don't mind long, if its low? This does have a 22 inch top tube, so pretty long, as I have a long back, short legs, what height are you?
Had a look at the Ellsworth pictures, doesn't look over big? seat tube looks quite short and with shorter forks would be ok?

 

[Sidewinder]

The seat tube is 17" distance to top of toptube is 13" top tube length is 22"
I'm 5-10"with a 22" inside leg.

 

[Wold Ranger]

Frame

So are you saying the Ellie is 13 ctc seat tube and 22 top tube?

 

[Sidewinder]

No its 17" ctc but 13" to top of top tube there is a 4" extension above the top tube if you look on the pics you can see it btw this is a 150mm rear travel frame so you wouldnt want to put too much lower travel fork on the front

 

[Wold Ranger]

Size

well thats pretty much the same size as the Merlin then? 17 inch centre to top. The head angle on the Epiphany is pretty slack, so think it would take a shorter fork ok, the web site says these are 5.25 travel, but has it the long travel plates?

 

[Sidewinder]

have never measured it but was inder the missaprehension it was 5.85 ,Ah well never mind

 

[Wold Ranger]

Swaps

I think I could manage the Ellsworth, but its whether you feel the Merlin is too small? Was it just a frame swap you wanted, frame n fork? or whole bike?

 

[Sidewinder]

What length is the seat tube c/to top ? also what forks are they?