If you've ever dreamed of having a disgustingly lightweight cross-country race bike but the usual high-end options are far too common for you, then Titici's Flexy MTB FS offers a full carbon frame handmade in Italy with the option of custom geometry. Unsurprisingly, such a thing also requires rather deep pockets...

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Unlike most carbon bikes, which are almost exclusively made in the far East, MTB FS is handmade in Europe, with the carbon frame actually being laid up and assembled in their Castelnuovo di Asola factory in northern Italy. Doing this in-house means that they can also offer custom frame sizing as well as their standard five XS-XL sizings, with pretty much every bit of the geometry being able to be tweaked - it's pretty damn racy as standard, however.

If you're thinking that the 'Flexy' name is a bit odd, it refers to Titici's trademark top tube, which is heavily flattened where it meets the seattube in order to offer up a little extra comfort. You might have thought a bike with 29" wheels 100mm of travel at either end might not need such a thing, but it's carried over from their range of road bikes, which also share the Flexy name and they claim it helps especially when the shocks are locked out.

The suspension system uses a single pivot rear end with flex stays to serve up a sporting 100mm of bounce, paired to the same at the front. The shock is a trunnion mounted item driven by a lovely carbon rocker link and the bike uses iglidur self-lubricating bushings rather than bearings throughout the back end.

As you'd expect, it features all mod cons with Boost hub spacing plus internal routing for a dropper post and cables, though who we guess a fair few of these are likely to be running tip top end electric Di2 or wireless AXS drivetrains. That's because a frame - no shock - with stock geometry costs a cool €4,290, with builds starting at €7,190 for a RockShox and SRAM GX Eagle bike and topping out at €9,990 for the shiny Fox Factory and XX1 Eagle machine.

Still, this is pretty much the only custom geometry carbon fibre mountain bike that we can think of, so the price reflects the exclusive club you'll be joining should you have the cash...

• www.titici.com

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