NAHBS 2016 -

We had to start somewhere, may as well go big.

Ben Farver was featured in Volume 10 where we learned what his favorite ice cream flavor is. We've followed him closely as many of you have, but each time we get hands on his frames we fall in love all over again. This year, though, Ben really flexed some design muscle with an updated dropout design as well as flaunting his new-installed paint booth.

Let's talk about that dropout first. Argonaut has evolved very organically with their designs and their early carbon dropouts were an evolution of their previous steel version. While outrageously beautiful, there was room to trim them down and make them lighter. Ben also seemingly saw this as an opportunity to continue to remove metal and replace it with even more carbon.

Now available in disc or caliper brakes, Ben is showing off his new direct mount rear end when you opt for disc version. Slimmed down, it now looks like a road setup rather than displacing a mountain bike caliper on a road frame.