Up front, the Comp-level Ritchey 4-Axis stem and Streem II bar is a smart combination. It’s completed rather well with a great mix of well-chosen parts. It adds up to a very well put-together frame. I like the machined and signed chainstay yoke welded to the bottom bracket shell, and the rear thru-axle dropouts are neatly cowled too. It also, however, has a ‘proper’ bridge for rear mudguards and rack mounts. The skinny steel tubes route cables and hoses externally, and the frame has both top-tube mounts and twin down-tube bottle placement, as you’d expect of a bikepacking bike. It tapers down nicely from the chimney-shaped tapered head tube. The full-carbon fork features twin mounts and a mudguard mount on the fork leg. The welds do look a little workmanlike compared to the best steel frames, but they are uniform in their execution. The Audax is a fine-looking machine, with the heart of the bike a tidy TIG-welded Columbus Cromor double-butted steel frame. This is not an urban hybrid with drop bars bolted on, it’s a proper long-distance speedster.
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