Custom bike Pron

[FLV]

Regardless of whether you or I would ever buy one, I like looking at fancy pants bikes.

field cycles I quite like, simple and elegant, roadie but nice



saffron are rather spangly



I also like firefly frames



Yes, I just want to look at pretty bikes

[whitestone]

That Field looks gorgeous

[polarcherry]

Got to be English Cycles Tour Divide bike - don't know how to do photos but this one - http://www.englishcycles.com/custombike ... vide-ride/

[FLV]

Got to be English Cycles Tour Divide bike - don't know how to do photos but this one - http://www.englishcycles.com/custombike ... vide-ride/

That English was BRP's of this parish. Not seen him for a while, wonder how if he raced it.

[mountainbaker]

BRP hasn't done the divide yet, he's hoping to one day though.

[Pete-G]

Field's work is beautiful, have a look for their new disc road drop outs and if you go looking through their site you should find a lovely 29er HT.

[jam bo]

starling bikes, bristol.

not sure it counts as pretty but I sure want one...

[GregMay]

Interesting kink in the seat stays - bridge above it?

[giryan]

Got to be English Cycles Tour Divide bike - don't know how to do photos but this one - http://www.englishcycles.com/custombike ... vide-ride/

That English was BRP's of this parish. Not seen him for a while, wonder how if he raced it.

Oh wow, that's an amazing bike, just been hunting for pics & details, so I figure I'd add the links here:
http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... 674#p15674
http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... 199#p16196
http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/articl ... -36527/17/
including this detail (that's got the entire bike in)

[chris n]

Interesting kink in the seat stays - bridge above it?

I wondered about that. Doesn't look like it: http://coresites-cdn.factorymedia.com/d ... tol-13.jpg
There's a similar detail on one of his other bikes too: http://cdn.coresites.factorymedia.com/d ... tol-23.jpg

[GregMay]

Interesting. I'd be surprised if it doesn't flex noticeably. Was one of the things I didn't like about the Kona A, other than the usual Kona 4-Bar uglieness.

[Richard G]

You guys should definitely visit Bespoked in April. You'll be in heaven.

[ctznsmith]

There's one of those Starling frames hanging on the wall in Roll for the soul bike cafe in Bristol if you want to look at one closely.

Looked interesting.

[mountainbaker]

Trition in Moscow.

I'm on my 3rd frame from Dmitry, they are great.

http://tritonbikes.com/gallery/

Their new CNCed yoke is rather tasty


And this B+ beast is nice too


Here's my Tour Divide setup from them

[Richard G]

That's goddamn sexy, fair play.

[polarcherry]

Will be interesting to here how you get on with the tour divides massive long flat road sections with a 30t front chainring (that's what it looks like anyway)?

Lovely looking bike - I remember looking at Triton a few years ago - back then they were £600 posted full custom. Now they seem to be more expensive than Brants Pact frames. Love that cnc'd yoke though.

[ctznsmith]

Will be interesting to here how you get on with the tour divides massive long flat road sections with a 30t front chainring (that's what it looks like anyway)?

I'm sure he'll be fine but will actually use the 11t sprocket unlike most people.
(It's approx 79 inches for the nerds)

[johnnystorm]

Will be interesting to here how you get on with the tour divides massive long flat road sections with a 30t front chainring (that's what it looks like anyway)?

Lovely looking bike - I remember looking at Triton a few years ago - back then they were £600 posted full custom. Now they seem to be more expensive than Brants Pact frames. Love that cnc'd yoke though.

He's already done it. With a 36t iirc.

I haven't seen a Pact up close but Gabe's bike looks like a bargain when you see the quality up close.

[mountainbaker]

Will be interesting to here how you get on with the tour divides massive long flat road sections with a 30t front chainring (that's what it looks like anyway)?.

"Hear"

Just had to find something negative, didn't you! It's a 32, and I did TD with a 36, but it's not really important, I rode a lot with a guy running singlespeed 33x19 and he span along on the flat about the same speed, we'd lose him on descents and he'd overtake us on the climbs. Gear is not that important, really.

[jameso]

And this B+ beast is nice too

I like that. Triton make some really great-looking stuff. If they were based in San Fran hipsterville and instagrammed with the radavist etc they'd have a far higher asking price. As it is I'd take a Triton over a Firefly, £ factored in.

I don't have a good pic to post but of all the custom stuff I've seen what made a really good impression on me was being at Shand's HQ. We/Evans had a keirin frame made for Chris Hoy and the finish quality was superb, good to see what they do there up close and I hear that it's moved on since then. There's far higher levels of finish-fetishism out there if you want anodized ti with carbon inserts or ultra-personalised kit but that's not my thing really, I wonder if a lot of that is about the build-up foreplay rather than the ownership? Anyway. If I were having a custom made it would be a Shand, no second thoughts there.

[mountainbaker]

I like that. Triton make some really great-looking stuff. If they were based in San Fran hipsterville and instagrammed with the radavist etc they'd have a far higher asking price. As it is I'd take a Triton over a Firefly, £ factored in.

OMG, you're so out of touch The Radavist is in LA now. He was at the start of TD in Banff, doing some crappy shoot with Salsa for their plastic TD bike, Morgan and I heckled him continuously.

[jameso]

I am, no doubt about that : )

[FLV]

to be honest, I love shands work too. I kind of expected someone to have posted one before now.

Shand is one I can see myself owning at some point, their Bahookie just has a couple of little niggles for me and last I spoke to them, they werent in a position to do me a full custom. When they are, I'll likely get one. Ians Shand is blooming lovely.

[Ian]

Every year I visit a large shed in Bristol rammed full of custom bike pron - difficult to choose between them sometimes, though last year I particularly liked this one: http://www.winterbicycles.com/projects/ ... et-hammer/

But anyway, I'll just leave these here, because they make me smile every time I look at them

[GregMay]

I want your Luxy bars.