A Review of Everti Titanium Bicycle Frames

Background on Everti:

For 2006 my cycling team, Colavita New Mexico, chose Everti as our frame sponsor. Everti is a small titanium frame company from British Columbia, who contracts with a Russian manufacturer to make their frames. They specialize in fairly inexpensive, straight gauge titanium framesets: and they are ALL titanium, none of the carbon seatstay nonsense. Frames can be ordered in compact (where the top tube slopes down to meet the seattube, creating a smaller or, “compact”, front triangle) or traditional geometry with a toptube parallel to the ground. In fact, the frames can be ordered with fully custom geometry made to the client’s exact specifications for a very small upcharge. Retail for the frame is $1375, with about a $100 upcharge for complete custom sizing. Turnaround time for an order is about 6 weeks.

Riding the Bikes:

My teammates and I have a mix of Everti’s original Falcon road bike, and their new Team  model. The main difference between the two is that the Team has a really beefy, overbuilt bottom bracket shell. The downtube flares out dramatically as it approaches the bottom bracket area, in an effort to make power transfer extremely efficient and the frame very stiff in this area. Therefore, the Team would be ideal for bigger, more powerful riders, or for sprinters. Both frames weigh about the same, with the Falcon (medium size) at a very respectable 1325 grams and the Team at 1340. Although not the lightest bike you’ll find out there, if you’re not on a super-elite Pro squad, and therefore paying for a frame with your own money (as we were) weight is only one of several factors. If we had gone with a superlight carbon frame builder, we weren’t going to have someone there to pick up the pieces for us after a crash and hand us a brand new replacement. So, in addition to a reasonably light frame, we were looking for: top level performance; durability; comfort; and a company we would be proud to represent.