Zaka Titanium 29er Frame
With the high $ Aussie dollar there has never been a better time to buy a full 3Al/2.5V Ti Frame.
Superlight, smooth riding, and incredibly durable "Black Magic" 3AL/2.5V titanium! Makes an efficient and comfortable hardtail for all day rides. Incredibly versatile, too - its sliding dropouts let you easily switch from geared to singlespeed and back!
Normally the more inexpensive Ti frames are made with lesser quality alloys, but Voodoo Zaka is made with 3Al/2.5V Ti tubing - the full monty!!
* suitable for geared or single speed use
* includes special sliding horizontal dropout for single speed
* see the drop down picture above for full sizing specifications
* 28.6mm front derailleur
* 27.2mm seatpost
* designed for 10omm travel fork
* 51mm International Standard Disc Mounts
* 2.0 kg
MTBR.com Reviews 5/5
"This frame is beautiful to look at, very light, and rides with a supple, yet somewhat springy feel that is never jarring. The handling is perfect - not too snappy, not too slow. It's a joy to ride. It comes with everything you need to ride geared or single-speed, disc or v-brakes."
Bikeradar.com review 4.5/5
"There’s something special about titanium hardtails. They’re tough but sweet, machined-masculine and fine-formed feminine, and brutally bare in the best possible way.
Voodoo’s D-Jab has all of those attributes, but it’s also a relatively simple bike that’s designed to suit different types of trail work. It doesn’t try too hard to be flash, and the price is totally down to earth. ....you could buy the frame alone for less than the price of the many lesser-known titanium frames.
Frame: quality pipes, nice details, looong fork
There are several sub-£1000 titanium frames on the market, but only a select few use quality tubes like the 3Al/2.5V set on the D-Jab. (The numbers designate the 3 percent aluminium and 2.5 per cent vanadium alloying elements that give the material its strength). None of the ones we know of exhibit the adaptability of the D-Jab, either.
It comes with nicely designed adjustable dropouts, so you can set it up one-geared or hub-geared if you wish without the disc brake fine-positioning becoming tricky. It also has bolt-on seatstay bosses for rim brakes in case you don’t want to use discs.
The practical approach continues elsewhere, with loads of mud room and standover clearance, a forward-facing seat clamp to stop spray getting in and two pairs of bottle cage bosses.
The ring reinforced head tube and neat gusseted down tube will help prevent frame damage in the event of full-frontal impacts, but the superb, 140mm travel Fox Float 32RL fork (R is for ‘Rebound Damping’, L is for ‘Lockout’) obviously helps more.
The fork is the most noteworthy evolutionary aspect of the frame since last year’s 100mm fork geometry. Part of the idea of running a longer-travel fork on a tough hardtail frame is to facilitate plenty of sag in the fork when you first climb on and hit the trails. The 69-degree head and 71.5-degree seat angles steepen by a degree or two, depending on how you choose to set the fork up, so you can accurately tune the front-end handling to suit your personal preferences on the trails you ride."
Warranty - 5 years
Note: complete bikes are not available.
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