World Travel Bikes

World Travel Bikes

When you ride a Zinn bike, you get a perfect fit combined with unmatched performance. So, when you’re traveling, why settle for a rental bike that doesn’t even come close to your own Zinn? Wouldn’t it be nice to bring your bike with you without the hassle of huge bike cases and extra airline charges? Zinn World travel bikes outfitted with S&S couplers can be packed and unpacked in under 20 minutes into an airline-regulation suitcase. Any steel or titanium Zinn bike can be built as a take apart bike, and we can also retrofit S&S couplers into existing frames. S and S couplers do not take away any strength or performance from your Zinn bike and add a minor amount of weight. The Zinn/KGS travel stem and other Zinn features like multiple couplers on the top tube and down tube of tall bikes, and slotted guides and stops with in-line adjusters speed and simplify disassembly, packing, and reassembly and make ours the first fully-engineered travel bikes available. Click here to check out our packing instructions as well as our new video that goes into depth on the packing process.

Road Bikes

Zinn Travel road bikes make a great performance road bike that can easily be checked onto an airplane. Our custom travel bikes eliminate the need to have a second bike for traveling. Other than a small increase in weight, our travel bikes perform the same as a custom road bike. Now you can be on your own bike anywhere in the world.The Dolomite World and Stelvio World are the big and tall travel road bikes that come standard with four couplers. Using the extra pair of S and S couplers allows the bike to be packed without removing the fork. This is strongly recommended for anyone over 6’3″. Our standard sized custom steel and titanium travel bikes come standard with two couplers. Our optional coupled stem also speeds up the packing process.

Mountain Bikes

We make steel and titanium hardtail travel mountain bikes as well as titanium full suspension travel bikes.  The Big Sur World and The Titan World are our big and tall 29er travel hardtails and come standard with 4 couplers. The Terra titanium full suspension mountain bike can also be built as a travel bike with 2 or 4 couplers. Imagine arriving on a plane trip to a mountain bike destination and having your own high performance full suspension bike at your fingertips. This could give a whole new meaning to business travel. If you are not very tall, our steel and titanium 26″ wheeled hardtails can be built as travel bikes as well. The Tyrant titanium full suspension mountain bike is also available with couplers.

Cyclocross, Track, and Triathlon

As with all of our bikes, any steel or titanium frame can be outfitted with couplers. Using the Zinn/KGS travel stem can also allow for quick handlebar changes. For example, you could have one bike for road riding and for triathlons or TTs. Just get a Travel Stem with two stem mounts. You can now change between road and aero bars pretty easily.

Tandems

We can also build steel and titanium tandems with S and S couplers. Since we are very experienced with tall riders, we are great at building tandems for teams with tall captains and short stokers. With bigger tandems, it may be necessary to use 9 couplers, but standard size tandems come with 6 couplers.

KHS BNT 29er

Specifications

Materials

Why Titanium

Titanium is half the weight of steel, so we can build Clydesdale Bikes for big guys with larger diameter tubing with a frame still lighter than steel. Larger diameter tubing provides greater strength and stiffness for greater power transfer, yet still with amazing compliance for a comfortable ride that doesn’t beat up your body over a long trek.

Titanium has enough strength and fatigue resistance to avoid the need for extremely oversized tubes, providing a compliant ride on rough surfaces that smooths out and absorbs road buzz and small bumps. Steel frames, with their smaller tubes, can be almost as compliant, but aren’t quite as comfortable.

Titanium can never corrode, unlike other metals. It can be painted or – unlike steel or aluminum – can be left without paint, powdercoat or plating, so you never need to worry about scratches. Internal cable routing is simple because the insides of the tubes are naturally impervious to rust and corrosion. Unlike aluminum, titanium has a fatigue limit, so as long as the tubing is not stressed beyond this limit or damaged, it will never fatigue. Titanium can also flex three times further than aluminum and twice as far as steel without permanent damage. Carbon fiber is very vulnerable to crash and notch damage, after which it may fail catastrophically. The epoxy matrix also degrades over the years with exposure to the UV in sunlight. A titanium frame can literally last the rest of your life, and longer.