Ultimate winter whip or year round freedom provider, the County Line from Moots delivers versatile performance almost all your riding.
You know the rides - we all have them. A road route with a shortcut that takes you off the tarmac, a lane that needs a proper resurface, or a shaded stretch that can be a bit treacherous for a pure road bike in the off-season. A road bike is skittish on the loose or slippery, and your gravel bike is a smidge dull on the smooth stuff.
The County Line is Moots' answer to those rides, and they were honest enough to build the frame around a tyre rather than a category.
That tyre is a 38mm and everything else follows from it. There's room for a 42 if your routes are rougher than the average but 38 is the number the frame was drawn around. Ideal for rapid road riding and wide enough for control on hardpack and champagne gravel, with tyre tread choice determining which way your riding can lean.
The County Line, like the Vamoots 33, is built around a straight-gauge 3Al/2.5V titanium, shaped to Moots' own specification, then welded and finished in their Steamboat Springs facility. Most titanium frames on the market are built in that alloy, and what separates one from another is the tube spec and the hands doing the welding. Moots are masters of both and the crftsmanship of the County Line is up to the company's usual exacting and beautiful standards.
Geometry is what defines the County Line and it leans heavily on Moot's experience in building renowned road frames, yet with added stability for confidence on dirt and rough pavement without losing the speed and efficiency that make it feel at home on the road. Available in eight sizes, the chainstays are a consistent 425mm across them, 12mm shorter than the Routt's, keeping a willingness to change direction instead of ploughing through the corner you've just worked out was tighter than it looked.
The County Line runs a 52mm fork offset on the smaller sizes and 45mm on the larger ones. Offset works against head angle to set trail, and trail is what decides how a bike steers. Use a single fork across eight sizes and the small frames come out twitchy while the big ones come out lazy. Varying it is why a 48 and a 62cm should, for the most part, feel like the same bike.
The fork is Moots' new carbon integrated model with 382mm axle to crown and a D-shaped steerer, allowing the brake hoses to run internally and through the Moots titanium stem and into the fork. This yields a clean aesthetic and removes the need for a proprietary headset.
Like a growing number of manufacturers, Moots have chosen to use a BSA threaded 68mm bottom bracket, availability is widespread and potential for BB derived noise is kept to a minumum. A Chris King unit supplied with the frame kit largely negates the need for any worry in the sort to mid term!
Moots quote a 45mm chainline for 2x and 47.5mm for 1x, with room for a 52/36 double or a 50-tooth single - ample for both set-ups given the use case. As you would expect on a modern frame of this caliber, routing is for electronic shifting only.
Mudguard eyelets are standard with bosses for a third bottle under the down tube, and upper rack mounts are an option should you wish.
The County Line is, for many, the bike they would ride the majority of the time. Fast enough for aggressive club runs and to keep you engaged on rapid solo efforts, yet with the versatility to move the goalposts should you decide that today isn't actually a training day after all. Enough tenacity on road to keep your peers honest, with the freedom to cut it up on the loose should your inner wanderer take the reins.
For those looking for a more racy, and arguably more road-performance leaning frameset, an RSL version will be arriving early in 2027. Like all RSL, it will be built on double-butted tubing, and it's an upgrade to this same platform rather than a different bike. Lighter, it also forgoes the mudguard mounts.
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