New Kinesis GTD titanium “ultra-endurance” bike launched

Well, I picked it up last Tuesday and I’ve had a full commute (50 miles) and a short ride on it.

First impressions were that it was just like the GFTI Disc - which isn’t a bad thing.  I immediately felt at home on it, and as comfortable.  Not surprising considering it’s the same geometry.

A bit more time, and I think that it might be a little stiffer when out of the saddle; I do accept that this could be placebo effect though.

Overall I’m very happy with it, and looking forward to putting on some miles; but I do agree it’s probably not a major upgrade over the GFTI Disc.

The Tripster V2 is a better looking bike in my opinion, just as comfortable, 3 bottle mounts, either thru axle or quick release and cheaper. https://road.cc/content/review/235318-kinesis-tripster-atr-v2-frame

I've gone through a few different crankset setups, but now I'm set on the triple Di2

Urgh, I’d just about forgotten that grotesque headtube badge and then you bring this back to the fore!

I have had my Kinesis GF disc for a couple years now.  Running Ultegra (non Di2) and some nice Mavic rims.

I absolutly love this bike.  Its my winter and more relaxed bike.  This weekend I did the Dunwich Dynamo through the night from East London to Dunwich Beach.  I had so many people compliment my bike (even people on similarly nice bikes), in fact I have had this ever since I purchased it, peole just come over and ask about it.

It descends so well, it has a sort of mtb'like feel about it.  I am sure the brakes help...  I built it with exactly the same contact points as my other bikes, just more relaxed.

Its not light, and the rear end seem to be more heavy for some reason when compared to other of my bikes.

I cannot recommend these bikes more.  

Sorry if this is a dumb question but...

What on earth is a "Chain pip"?

As a GF_Ti owner, I'm not convinced about the wholesale improvement over the previous version. Thru-axles and a weight saving is nice but personally I've had no problems at all with QRs and discs rubbing, and the fact that they aren't mentioning the weight saving implies that it probably isn't great.

On top of that, you lose the machined head tube and the sexy hourglass seatstays and you get the tacked on badge and those ugly dropouts. The cable routing goes external on the chainstays which is probably a better design for maintenance but less clean looking IMO. In terms of tyre clearance it looks to be very marginal as I'm pretty sure I could easily fit 34s in my frame currently.

All that plus a £150 price bump doesn't make a very compelling case against the GF_Ti, unless the ride is somehow vastly improved.

5 year warranty hahahahahahaha, I got that on my carbon frame ffs, no third bottle cage mount as mentioned above is another downer plus no rim brake version.

I'm in the market for a replacement Ti frame for my Raleigh as a GT bike but this isn't going to be it.  lack of developing the rim braked GT-Ti so that it can take 30mm tyres with mudguards which was perfectly possible loses me as a potential customer.

Want. So. Bad.

Kinda weird that they've gone backward a little bit when it comes to the internal cable routing...the rear brake and derailleur cables on the GF-Ti disc exited the frame on the chainstays, while these are only internal on the down tube. Wonder why they've done that?

I know the main target for this bike isn't bikepacking and such. But i still wonder why some manufacturers insist on not adding a third bottle cage under the downtube on these endurance, long distance rigs in these price ranges. There are surely no reasons for them not to? I was on the hunt for a frame like this a few months ago, and albeit a small detail, the lack of an extra bottle mount was enough for me to exclude it from the possible contenders. The frame looks great otherwise.

Oh bugger!

I thought the GFTI Disc was for life...