In one form or another, the S.L. has been in my catalogue for nearly 30 years. When I started making the S.C. in 1992, there were only a couple other builders in the country making anything similar. What made the S.C. different back then was the availability of the frame and fork to accept 700×45 tires. Cyclocross bikes of the day coming from Europe could barely manage a 700×32 tire and most of these import frames were very flexy and hard to control at speed by anyone who was not a circus performer. What I did back in 1992 (and still do now) is build a frame that will take the larger tires and feel really stable when being ridden at speed, particularly in hard cornering. I wanted to make a bike that wasn’t scary but still fun to go fast on. The frame can be built for either rim brakes or disc. Touring braze ons are available at a nominal cost.