Bassi Hog's Back Frameset

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Steel all-road world touring frame, a modern Montreal design
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You can find remaining stock of previous years' colourways for slightly lower prices here.

The Hog's Back is our true all-road loaded touring frame, and we do mean all the roads. This bike has ridden all over, from Montréal's streets to Vermont's highways to Peru's dirt roads, as loaded-down with baggage as you please.

For the curious, if you want to bring your Hog's Back to visit its namesake mountain, it lives in Gaspésie National Park. You can hike up it, but you'd best ask the park rangers before you ride up it, too.

Available here fully-built. If you'd like just the frame, we'll be glad to install any headset, bottom bracket and sundry parts you'll need. Parts installation is always free with in-stock parts and Bassi frames.

If you have a build in mind different from ours, start a conversation, we'll be glad to help. We're pretty good at custom bikes.

On the third run of frames, we added ED coating to protect the inside of the frame from rust.

Now available in Cool Ade blisteringly hot orange-red, Loch Ness deep watery greeny-bluey, and classic 2020-vintage Hog's Back Piggy Pink.

FEATURES

  • Columbus Cromor tubing (frame and fork)
  • Geometry optimized for balanced front-rear load, or front-biased load.
  • Ideally used with swept-back "alt-bars" rather than road drops. If using drops, you'll need a short stem and/or a frame one size smaller, this bike has a long front to it.
  • 27.2mm seatpost, cast seat collar
  • EC34 headset (1-1/8" standard)
  • 28.6mm theadless steerer
  • Disc brake ISO mounts, 160mm rotor recommended
  • Downtube mounts for shift levers or housing stops
  • 135mm rear spacing, quick-release vertical dropout
  • BSC threaded bottom bracket (1.37" x 24TPI), 68mm shell width
  • Higher BB than many touring bikes, so you don't do what Julian always does and break teeth off your chainrings hitting rocks.
  • Includes cable guide for shift cables under the BB shell and bolts are installed in the eyelets.
  • Kickstand plate (please don't overload the kickstand, we stand by Soma's recommendations for touring bikes and kickstands)
  • Pretty darned rugged weight limits, as far as luggage on a properly installed rack goes. We tested with 26kg of weights in panniers, up and down steep hills, and handling didn't change much, so you're probably good. But be reasonable.
  • So many eyelets, I haven't even counted them. Put racks, cages, fenders, whatever you want on this bike. Keep putting 'em on. No, more than that.
  • Eyelets for a Bassi Strap, too. It's for helping you handle the bike when you've taken the luggage off. Don't try hauling it onto that train with the bike's weight and the luggage's weight all on the strap, please. You'll hurt the bike, the strap, and probably yourself.
  • Metal headbadge. It doesn't change anything but boy is it pretty and really classes up the place.
  • We weighed a 51cm frame with its fork steerer uncut, with no parts on, at 3.8kg. We don't really worry about frame weights, but some people like to know that kind of thing, so a year into this frame's existence we finally put one on the scale. Turns out it weighs pretty much what you'd expect for a touring frame. A Montréal frame is about 600g lighter FYI, which is the same as a mostly-full water bottle.

 

FRAME GEOMETRY

SIZE 47cm 51cm 54cm 58cm
Seat tube (c-t) 470 510 540 580
Effective top tube 530 560 590 630
Head tube angle 70.5 71 72 72
Seat tube angle 73 73 73 73
Chainstay 440 440 440 440
Headtube 130 170 150 190
BB drop 40 40 60 60
Chainline 45.5 45.5 45.5 45.5
Stack 519 559 583 621
Reach 371 389 412 440
Wheelbase 1032 1059 1070 1111
Fork Rake 50 50 50 50
Fork Length 395 395 415 415
Tire clearance 26x2.2" or 650Bx47 26x2.2" or 650Bx47 27.5x2.2" or 700Cx45 27.5x2.2" or 700Cx45
Minimum PBH (cm) 76 80 83 87

Colours are not necessarily representative when viewed on a screen. Please be prepared to accept slight differences in hue from the colours you see here.

1 review

5 stars based on 1 reviews

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15 Jul 2022
Egan Davis
I love the geometry of this bike. The stack height allows me to get my bars where I want them without too many spacers. The fork trail and chainstay length both feel nicely balanced. Lots of braze ons! Good tire clearance! Centre kickstand mount! And I love the old standard bottom bracket shell, quick realease, headtube etc. My set-up includes 650b wheels, 52 mm tires, Bosco bars and it fits me perfectly. It is a good cross country rider and my everyday commuter. And, it looks great too! Nothing looks wrongly proportioned e.g. seatpost length, stem height and length. I have the flat black and it looks good with lots of silver and black components accented with a few colourful pieces - yellow Growtac brakes, purple Paul's brake levers and some brass bits. Lots of bike for the bucks!