(i>Clockwise from the top right/i>) The beautiful detailing on the headtube, look how elegantly the metal has been removed from the bracing to save weight; The upper shock mount; This photo may be too small to do the detailing on the main link justice, but the patterning inside is fantastic; Machining Ion in the seattube brace adds time and complication to the production, there are dozens of simpler ways of putting the model name on a frame, but this is how Nicolai do things. And we like it.