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Dialled Bikes are getting a bit of a rep for making the kinds of frames that people who like to ride, like to ride.

It's more difficult than it sounds. Just look at any Gary Fisher since he invented the toptube. I reckon Mike at Dialled has hit the mark twice already, with the Kobe Ti and the Prince Albert, so it's worth a look at what's up next.

This proto shot is the new Alpine frame, which has been tested in the actual Alps, south of Dover in the nation of Swiss Francetaly by the folks at Trailaddiction, WMB, and also put through the Megavalanche by that hardtail lunatic from Dirt magazine.

It's a more all-rounder-tending-down steel framed affair than the Prince Albert, suiting a real man's fork from 130mm (boo) to 160mm (yay), and sporting slacker geometry, big tyre capability, and lots more standover for less limb tangling potential when you bin it on your local alpine steeps.

It uses a mix of steel tubing types - safe to say it seems to be built tough and light in the right spots.

Just Tell Me When and How Much.

Keep drooling; they're hitting the shops in Spring 2008, but Mike's taking pre-orders for an effectively free price of £300, instead of the slightly less than free £360 that sluggish punters will be paying when they realise it's the weapon of choice, flog that chipped Cove Stiffee foreign riding on ladders alloy rubbish and get on and ride the cold hard steel of home*.

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