Sour Bicycles Pasta Party Frame - FAF yellow

XC laps, KOMs, or riding to the ends of the world… The Pasta Party is the truly XC-ready frame for all the adventures, big or small.

When Sour introduced the Pasta Party in 2021, they hoped it would be popular. Nowadays it has become almost the most popular model in their porfolio… honestly, Sour shouldn’t have been so surprised, this bike shreds!

The Pasta Party is the bridge between the Sour Purple Haze and the Crumble, or maybe the glue that holds them together… who knows! While both the Purple Haze and Crumble are down for a party as well as buckling down and getting down to business, the Pasta Party is truly the suit-and-tie XC bike of the line up. That is, tie-dye suit and tie with cutoff shorts, naturally.

Sour built the Pasta Party to be a thorough-bred with a wild hair. Pare the bike down with lighter components and fast tires and this thing will rock local XC Fight Club races. Or dress it up with some more adventure gear and chunky tires and send it all the way to Kyrgyzstan.

What makes this bike so special? A modern XC-based geometry paired with the Sour very own passion for trail riding and adventures. A made-especially-for-Sour tubing set and custom bits all over the frame makes the Pasta Party truly a unique frame.

All of this, built by hand in Saxony!

Adventure Ready

Sour built the Pasta Party to be a fast and capable bike for not only your local lunch laps, but also any and all adventures you can dream up. Sour have seen the Pasta Party excel at big bikepacking races in Kyrgyzstan, Greece, Morocco, and countless more.

The Pasta Party is very much a companion to the Purple Haze gravel bike. Sour saw more and more people riding the Purple Haze on increasingly wild routes and they thought adding a fast-packing ready XC mountain bike to the line-up would be perfect.

The Pasta Party is one of their best selling frames and they couldn’t keep up with all the wild adventures the bike takes on even if they tried!

Now in its second generation after watching so many people ride the Pasta Party in local XC races and big bikepacking routes and races,  Sour have honed the platform even further, all while keeping up with modern component trends.

Fully featured and fast.

The Pasta Party is unapologetically XC. The entire platform is focused on being efficient, light, and stable. The Pasta Party is just at home on singletrack as it is riding the gravel road to the singletrack.

The 44mm headtube adds stiffness and drops weight, as does the flat mount rear brake mount. And don’t forget the eccentric bottom bracket! With about 14mm of adjustment, you can either dial in your fit for maximum pedaling efficiency, or go singlespeed and just walk everywhere!

Sour ovalized the top tube, as well as a bit of the seat tube for better power transfer. All of this is paired with three bottle cage mounts for all the Go Far H2O™.

Singlespeed? All the speeds? Dropper? Rigid? Yes.

Sour built the Pasta Party to be ready for anything, and bein ready for anything means being able to run any setup. Geared, or not. Mechanical or electronic. Hydraulic or *sqquueeaal*. It’s up to you!

Details of the Sour Pasta Party frame

• Sour Bicycles frames are made by hand, one-by-one, in their own facility in Saxony, just outside of Dresden
• Custom tubing designed and drawn for the frames, it’s a multi-butted heat-treated 4130 CrMo steel that’s ready to stand the test of time
• Steel is produced from a partially recycled product in Germany and drawn by one of the worlds leading production facilities in Taiwan
• Dropouts are designed in-house in Dresden and have a replaceable derailleur hanger
• The seat clamp is designed in-house and is integrated into the frame. Should it ever fail, the frame can be professionally modified to use a traditional clamp, if repair of the original clamp is not possible. Sour has never seen one fail
• Headtube: ZS44/EC44 (for tapered steerer tubes)
• Bottom bracket: 68mm BSA with eccentric shell (EBB)
• Rear spacing: 12x148mm Boost thru axle
• Seatpost: 31.6mm (dropper post ready)
• Brake standard: Flat Mount 160mm direct (FM160)
• Fork travel: 100 – 120mm travel
• Wheel Size: 29″
• Tire size: up to 29×2.4”
• Run it singlespeed or with a derailleur!
• Two water bottle mounts inside frame, a third bottle mount under downtube
• External cable routing on the downtube for easy service
• Stealth dropper post routing
• Ovalized lower seat tube section for better power transfer
• Ovalized toptube for comfort and precise steering
• Maximum chainring size: 38t round or 36t oval
• Sram Transmission Compatible Dropouts (UDH)

Included with your frame

• Sour Pasta Party frame
• Eccentric bottom bracket
• Derailleur hanger
• All cable guides
• Rear thru axle