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The Lynskey Helix combines durability, stability, ride quality, and carbon-like stiffness.  There are some great frames available that offer three out of these four desirables, but if you want 'em all, the Helix is the way to go.

The Helix uses a special cold-working process that produces four spiral-shaped tubes:  top tube, down tube, and seat stays.  Not being physics majors, we were initially skeptical about the spiral-shape enhancing stiffness, but Lynskey swore that it did and said "why not just try one out?"  

We did, and the rest is history.  The Helix is now our best-selling frame.  To feel just how well this engineering works, we invite you to do what we did:  test ride a Helix.

Helix OS -- chasing the podium on titanium

The Helix OS combines the already stiff Helix with a Press Fit BB30 bottom bracket and an oversized head tube.  Fatter means stiffer, both down below and up front.  The Helix OS offers stiffness unmatched by any other metal frame except the Cannondale CAAD10, with the durability and the lively ride of titanium.  

See our Cat I road racer Charles McCarthy's review of his BB30 Helix OS.  And see Road Racing on Ti for a rundown on Charles' 2010 Bike Up the Mountain Points Series.

Which is better for you?

Add a BB30 to a frame like the R230, and you will notice a dramatic improvement in lateral stiffness.  Take a frame that is already very stiff, like the Helix, and add a BB30 bottom bracket to it, and the difference is more subtle -- enough so you might not notice it initially.  The standard Helix is a very race-worthy machine in its own right.

The Helix OS is for you if you simply want the absolute best metal frame available, bar none.  The Helix OS delivers at the level where an improvement in performance of less than one percent means the difference between second place and third place in an event like Newton's Revenge, the "other Mount Washington Hill Climb" (1:01:27 vs. 1:01:58 -- advantage, Helix OS, under the legs of Charles McCarthy -- Charles humbly admits there's no bike on the planet that would have helped him beat Tom Danielson, course record holder and the winner in '10!).

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