Moulton AM Esprit

The Moulton AM Esprit was a road and distance model of the Alex Moulton AM family of small-wheeled bicycles, unveiled to the Moulton Bicycle Club in September 2007 and listed by the club as made from 2008 to 2011, sitting between the TSR and the AM. The club's report says it was lighter than earlier AM models because of narrower Kaisei tubing, and stiffer because of a slightly wider construction, using the hairpin form, shared with the ATB and APB, in which narrow tubes wrap around the head tube and seat tube. It was offered as a separable frame with an angled bottom tube or as a fixed frame with a straight one, in a choice of head tube and seat tube lengths, with a frameset price of around 1200 pounds at launch. Its published specification lists Velocity 17 inch rims, an AM stainless steel leading link front suspension with a choice of soft, medium or hard spring, and a rubber cone rear spring, and BikeRadar reviewed it in 2008 as proof that a proper road bike can have small wheels.