These Bikes Are Unbelievable! (Bespoked 2025)

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[Music] Hey there everybody. Today we are here in Dresen at the Bespoke Show and in this video we’re going to take a look at all the really cool and interesting bikes. Let’s see what they got. This bike is a is a bike packing bike um made for travels. Um there’s a little bit of a story behind this because um I um I built a bike for two in 2018 for the Concord machine which is a French frame builders competition uh where the theme was you know bike packing uh go long or shorter distances spend the night etc. I built this frame two years ago for my 50th birthday. You know the presents you do to yourself are always the nicest. Uh and uh to treat myself I built in uh stainless steel. So it’s XTR uh tubes. Uh never ridden uh stainless, but it’s it’s very nice actually. Uh uh it’s not as as rigid as you would think. So it’s actually very uh nimble, so I I love how it feels. Uh in order to show that, I just did like a partial paint job. Yeah. Um equipped it with a lot of um components from Hope because I love these guys. They have, you know, great parts, uh good quality, uh great customer service. Yeah. Uh and I tested for the first time um the Grot uh shifters. So I haven’t actually ridden those yet. Uh I’m I’m looking forward to to trying these out. I wanted to keep the bike as mechanical as possible. Easy to maintain. Left most of the cables outside. Uh also to to be able to set this up in different ways. That’s why there also the rocker dropouts. Okay. Um so I can change between post mount, flat mount, rolloff, and and all that stuff if I wanted to. So it’s it’s keeping up all the options. There’s a there’s a bam there, which is kind of my my feature on all these other bikes. I have b laminated hat tubes as well that kind of create the shape of the of the logo. Mhm. And um we have an external charger. So that’s called the fulam ladder is a German guy who builds these power banks uh that can be either integrated into the seat post. This one is the external version that you can also charge separately. So lots of uh lots of battery power that is connected directly to the dynamo. So uh does the dynamo charge that? battery charges this um uh and then the lights are connected to uh to the battery uh so I can charge and have lights at the same time. Yeah. The we’ve got this nice uh set of uh bags from Jean Michelle Timas who’s building great bags. This is a concept that he designed for me for in 2016 for the transcontinental race. Pretty easy to uh to take off is it basically just slides on and off. There’s um you know uh some sleeves there. Yeah, standard bottle boss dropouts. Yeah. Comes back on very easily as well and sits uh rock solid. Yeah. So, it’s ready for for some trips and ready to get dirty. So, it’s a kind of neo retro randonness because I love this kind of classy bicycle, but I wanted to try um of course a randonness but with a very um contemporary and pure shape. And uh I wanted really to have all the little detail on the accessories like the rack but actually the the frame is very simple with small tube and um for the the seat post clump it’s on the seat stay to have to a very pure design here and uh I build the fork too and um I don’t really want to work with the legs because I don’t really want it to have too much classic shape that’s Why I designed a very um pure and minimal for and it’s a stainless steel 3D printing and all the rest is very classical right and um it’s the same for the stem. This one is a mix between this little part which is a 3D printing part just here for the clump to have very minimal and pure shape and the rest it’s very classic silver braiding. So I love this way to work with a very traditional um way to do and more um contemporary technical right and the rack is also a big part of the design of this bicycle because it’s the same it’s a very classic shape but all the detail are inside with this small tube. Yeah. And for example you can uh find this little detail here with a double um tube and you find the same in the bridge. So I really try to have um a match between all the little detail and for example this shape here that you can find the same here and you can find the detail too in the paint job. Yeah. And um so for the paint job my inspiration was um so funny the the guitar stripe the vintage guitar strap with this kind of embroidery and uh what I like in this kind of pattern it’s easy to play with it in detail like in the same so always in order to have a very um good match with all the component and the idea was to have a large part of silver component um to remind the old and classic from the nose. Yeah. Yeah. Uh and uh of course I have all I need for travel with it. So the integration of the light and um the the racks and the bags are made by um French uh bags maker too. The name of the company it’s Coril plum. Okay. And she she uh makes these bags especially for the her fork cage. Okay. It’s our titanium fork cage. So this bag are made specially for that. It fit perfectly. And for the rear rack, I really wanted to have something very um close to the bikes to don’t have um a front rack, a rear rack to which say I’m a rear rack because when I don’t have the bags, I want to have something very discreet to follow the shape of the bikes. And it’s Gilbert French brandu Jilberu Mudguard mirror tapes kind of thing. So I love to work with this company too. It’s very important for us to try to work with Zal and French company. How many hours work do you think went into the bike? I stopped to count because I because it’s my personal bike. I build it between my uh my client’s bike. So it was during the evening, sometimes the night and during the weekend, right? And especially for the paint job, I really stopped to count. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, amazing bike. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hey there everybody, future Russ here in the editing bay. Just a quick note that if you guys have been enjoying this bike nerdery, please consider supporting the channel by joining us on Patreon or becoming a YouTube member. It’s what really makes this possible. It allows us to travel, go to these shows, take the time to film and edit them, and bring them to you. This is a bike content that the other uh big bike media won’t cover. So, if you guys if you guys appreciate that, you know, support what you watch. Let’s get back to the video. So, I’ve been uh very into muscle bikes lately. The old Schwin Stingrays, Apollo’s, everything like that. All the old retail um bikes. So, I really wanted to build one. Yeah. But then realized I probably wasn’t going to use it a whole bunch just because they’re fun for like ripping wheelies and wooden ramps, but not necessarily like going to work or bike packing or anything like that. So, ultimately, I just wanted to make a grown-ups muscle bike. And uh yeah, wheelie bar included. How’s that? How’s that work? So, what it does is uh since it has sliding dropouts, I made it adjustable in three different uh ways because as you’re wheeling, the idea is not not that you’re necessarily rolling on it, but it catches you from looping out. And so, yeah, you can adjust the whole thing to make sure it’s like perfect for where the dropouts are set and everything like that. And then the bar actually doubles as a back support. Okay. So, I have a uh Kadise bag that’ll be running on this for like bike packing stuff. I still get to use the loops on the top, too, which is nice. Yeah, I saw this you posted, I think, on the gram last night. I was like, is that for like wheeling it into an elevator, you know? No. And that’s just for going down the road and just feeling saucy, you know? Right. Tell me what’s going on with the fork here. Yeah, so the fork is actually um rated for around like 95 to 100 pounds. Um yeah, so it’s definitely a beefy fork. It was it it’s kind of like a mix between a Stingray and a cycle truck, I guess you could say. um doing a lot of commuting and stuff around Colorado Springs. I wanted to make sure that a I could do that, but that also my dog can go on there. So, I have a bread basket that he’s going to be hanging out in. Um overall width of the fork is kind of crazy. It’s kind of hard to see from the side, but it’s a very wide fork. Um and so I built the fork inside of the stansions, which usually it’s the other way around. So, yeah, just kind of messing around with some ideas I had and some drawings in a notebook and this is what came out. Yeah. What are these tires? So, these are actually the Specialized Carlos Whispers, which is their wire bead ebike tire, but it’s a 3.5. And seriously, one of my favorite tires I’ve used as for a 20 in. Um I used to work at Bike Friday and used to do a bunch uh use a bunch of um the Schwabby Big Apples, the 2.5s, and just really love the bigger volume tires. And so, when I found these, I was like, I don’t even care if they’re heavy. The fork’s already heavy. Like, they’re the perfect tire for this. So, uh, I got the Stanley flasks here, the, um, vintage reissue ones. I have some vintage Sugino Maxi 155 crank. So, yeah, they look really short. Yeah. So, these are actually off of a old track bike that I had laying around in the shop. Um, a 24-in track bike actually. And so, yeah, I just thought it would be cool. Wolftoothoth makes a compatible 34 to so I was like, it’s perfect, you know, for this kind of thing. And then yeah, Paul rear boost fixed hub. Um, I’m running it single speed right now, but the idea is when I’m home, it’ll be fixed like a lot of my other bikes. Kind of mix and matched all of my components as like instead of doing like one complete show bike build. Like I had all of this stuff just laying around in my house that I would save for non-specific purposes. And yeah, you can actually still see the QC from when I used to work at Surirly. That’s an old QC rim that I brand new just sitting in the shop. So, like why not build a show bike with it, you know? You probably have a really deep parts bin. Yeah. It’s more like a parts attic. Parts attic. Yeah. Okay. We’re here with IAS from uh Endless Bikes. Tell me about this this amazing contraption here. Uh it’s called Lusti. Uh it’s a kids cargo bike. Uh lusty is like a abbreviation of lustrat, which is a German phrase for cargo bike. Okay. um makes it kind of cute if you put an I at the end of the word. And when my girlfriend told me that she’s pregnant, I was like, where is that coming from? I own a cargo bike shop and my my little daughter, she won’t even have a cargo bike to ride on. Uh that was kind of my therapy to to build the first one because I didn’t really know that there were similar bikes around and I love frame building so much. And yeah, that’s why I like compensated the the fact that was that I was going to be a father. with a new bike. The first one was in 12in wheels. It didn’t have a crank, so it was just a push bike. Um, and then I thought, okay, that’s it. But people loved it. It was 2 and a half years ago and got messages from all over the world, people sending me pictures of their mini kids cargo bikes. So, I was like, “Oh, I’m actually not the first one.” Which was so cool because people like we share the same spirit. And here we are. This is version number three. And it actually turns out to be I don’t know. It’s a proper bike now. Yeah, we we’ve got a CAT model. We’ve got the construction. And for the show, we built it up with the Dura Ace components of the 70s8s, which makes it a little I don’t know, crazy. I don’t know. Yeah. What’s a What’s the wheel entire size? Uh, it’s 16 in where we actually had a problem. We We’ve got a wheel builder. He’s called Yurit from Mundro Wheels. He built the wheels with nice velocity rims from the US. And then he sent sent us the wheels and they were too big. And I was like, “Guy, I I ordered 16.” I had a 16. And then we actually, it was the first time that we got to know that there’s two kind of 16 in. So, we had to do a new wheel set. I had to do it again. Uh, but it’s fat tire, so it’s like 50 mil, you know, 40 something mm. Yeah. Uh, we wanted to do 12 in in the front to make it a little shorter, but then we thought kind of looks looks okay. Now, for us, it was important not to only shrink a cargo bike, but to make it a kids bike. And kids, they have smaller diameters at the handlebar. They have special special brakes, okay? Uh shorter cranks. So that’s why it was very important to us to to make it a bike that kids actually can ride, right? That’s a critique that we get often. People who come here, um kids will never be able to ride. I’m like, yes, they are. They’re so It’s like they just hop on and start pedaling. Yeah, it’s really cool. Yeah. I like the the down tube shifter. Is it friction or is it index? It’s friction. Yeah, it’s friction because we couldn’t really manage to get the old cassette. It’s a old cassette and I had to build something on my own and that’s why it’s friction. Yeah. Uh any other interesting or weird details? Uh interesting and weird. I think um we’re totally into reuse things and not only build the stuff for the fair. So the guy that uh suit the bag, I told him to make it fits my uh short John. So what we did is we attached these. Oh, okay. It’s just four of them. those fit locks or it’s it’s something like fit locks. It’s got locks. It’s a different similar system and we just attach them here and I can use the back on my bike. Just take them off, put it on my bike and can do my groceries and then that’s it. Great. And the the old saddle I had to weld the the frame here because I couldn’t manage to find any kit saddle but I wanted it to be in this old style you know. Yeah. Fitting to the dura and all the silver and then that’s why I did it myself. It’s an old saddle from 1950s. Oh wow. Was it like an old kids saddle or? Yeah, it was it was actually a kids spike saddle and but I couldn’t manage it to get it on this system. So, I welded it myself. Yeah. I was I’m an engineer and we’re always thinking of how can we build this bike for people to actually buy it. But if we would do it like this, it would be way too expensive and people you can ride it for maybe two or three years and would be too expensive. And that’s why we did this here, not to weld it here because we like this, we could use a fork that is a bought part and we just clamped it there so we didn’t have to weld at the at the part. We want to do EO testing and we want to do things properly. And when I when I called the guy from the testing agency, he was like, “Oh, guy, you’re in the best in the best place because kids bikes and cargo bikes and a combination of those, there’s no norm. There’s no testing facility ever. I don’t know how we’re going to do it. We’ll find a way.” Yeah. It’s um interpretation of a FLO racer. FLO is a company from Holland, Netherlands. Yeah. And they build it the FO racer bike in the 80s 90s and then they uh set up the drawings open source to to the internet. Everybody can take it. And I take the drawings and interpretate it a little bit new. Blow it up for real bigger tires, for fenders, for lightning, for for for suspension. So it didn’t have sus. The original design didn’t have suspension. Uh it has suspension, but only um a gum pumper. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like a or something. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s sitting here. Okay. And it is very functional, very easy, very cheap to build, but not that beautiful, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, it looks like you made a bunch of custom What custom parts did you have to make for this bike? Yeah. Everything. I don’t have the You need a complete new frame jig. Everything is different. The front is in the back and the back is in the front. We have the hub dynamo is in the back. So, in the back wheel, we have the dynamo. Sure. And um I had to build the mounting points for the seat. Yeah. So the seat stays we have no seat stay h seat post. Yeah. We have like this thing. I cannot explain it. That you built you had to build everything. You had to build um a thing for the crank to and it had to be adjustable. Yeah. You had to yours. Yeah. So So this slides back and forth for maybe that is a seat post. Oh, okay. If you if you reync it to transform it, that is a re seat post and the bottom bracket is very is adjustable mounting for the light. Mhm. So that you and that had to be um dismountable that you can put up pull up this. I see. I see. Yeah. What else? Um I had to build the brake hanger. Yeah. Oh, there’s not that much space, but I have very wide fenders. Yeah. So I need a different type of baranganger. And then I remember the picture or video from Brian Chapman. He built this. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Everybody knows the videos. And thank you, Brian. And then I built it. This the fork. It’s It isn’t a fork. It’s a suspension system. Yeah. I had to build completely out of scratch. And Yeah. And I built the whole bike with parts laying around in a workshop. So the the back wheel is for my tundan. Okay. So and um I have an old Chimano hub. It’s an Altos. It’s not a Yeah. But I have it the grip that is from my the handlebars for my uh from my Ricksha. Okay. And I only buy the chain rings as last year um Alex from Rover Cycles made some rings for me. I have some rings on display and I had to buy the seat. That’s a that’s an organal. Yeah. Original original from a flavor bike. Okay. Okay. And it’s white. So that’s also full. And I had to buy the dump damper. Yeah. Um and I just chose a damper. um who is um what is for for less money but new. So it was like an offer in the internet so 100 for thing normally is 300 and then I have the dumper and then I built everything around that. Yeah. Yeah. So I don’t want to spend so much money in this bike. So I had to spend a lot of time in the bike. It’s expensive in a different way. Yeah. Yeah. What made you want to do such a complicated bike? Yeah, I I start building when I do my apprenticeship 2010. Yeah. Um I start building a flavor racer just the normal one but I cannot finish it. I had to leave the company where I do my apprenticeship and then I cannot finish it and the parts were staying there and the workshop went I had to go two or 3 months I fell in a rabbit hole of sire and then vow mobilebile. Yeah mobilebiles. Yeah and what a nightmare to be in there. I was in and then I remember oh there was something in the in in the past I start building it and then now I can build it in a completely different way and with a with a new impact and and the problem is with recumbants um the people who build there or the people constructing it they are like mechanical engineers and not that artists or something like and they look like um form follows function every time. There’s no no need to have it in a beauty way or with beautiful fenders and so a yeah well this has to be the the the coolest looking recumbent I’ve ever seen. Yeah, I think it’s the only only luck recumbent with flux. So it’s a pure road bike for me the the ideal road bike um uh for road racing. Uh but since I live in the north of France, it’s a very wet area. I wanted to equip it with fenders and also a little bit of bigger tires to uh kind of tackle the the cobbles or the the uneven roads. Um you’re telling me you were envisioning riding rub with this, right? Yeah, exactly. I could do right par with this. For this, I would take off the fenders. Uh uh but you know, spring classics is definitely um um something that I would do with this bike. It’s uh the frame is made from Columbus lif steel. Uh it’s all silver braced. Uh so it’s very light. little heat going into this to to keep it um yeah to to keep it as straight and as as uh as nice as possible. Uh again, we have the baminated hat tube, but that’s more of um of a decorative feature. There is a little bit of an interest there to the head to deformation uh to to the lowest limit as possible. I built the stem myself to be able to integrate the the cable stop uh to use these uh nice Paul uh uh racer medium brakes which are just incredible in terms of brake power. Yeah. So don’t no need for uh for disc brakes and that again keeps the light the bike very light. So everything on this bike the transmission company record and super record. Uh the saddle is um uh cell EDL made in Tulus with titanium rails. So everything is made to keep the bike as light as possible. also comes in at 9 and a half kilos with the fenders and everything. With fenders and everything. Yeah. So, it’s uh and yeah, again, I’m looking forward to ride this bike. Uh haven’t really been able to to take it out on the road, but uh it will be nice. Yeah. It’s too clean at the moment. It’s too clean at the moment. I need a show bike. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, we’re here uh over the folks at Sentient Works. Uh the last time we saw you, it was Apocalypse had just happened. Yeah. And this bike is back. Tell us what’s changed. Okay. So, uh, this is the post-apocalyptic build of our apocalypse bike from the Manchester show. Um, so, uh, we’ve just updated it with all the the fancy stuff that we wish we could have had, uh, in in the Apocalypse. We ignored all the comments that we saw in your last video about hydraulic brakes. Uh, instead, we just went for much nicer, you know, beefier Britishmade Hope Hope brakes. Um maybe maybe someone did say it should have a Brooks saddle. So we did maybe we did listen a little bit. There’s a there’s a Brooks Cambium on here now. And they also sorted us out some nice comfy erotic grips. Super nice. And they sent us these uh suspension seat post and stem to use. So there’s a bit more comfort because we found that the one long tube is actually quite harsh ride. Um so that’s sort of softened it out. So what’s the shifting system now? The shifting system is uh well, we went with the Alfine Di2, which is okay. It’s not It wouldn’t have It wasn’t our dream. Yeah. Uh we’re after we’re after a a 3×3 hub. Uh but they didn’t uh they didn’t respond to us. Um so it is unfortunately electronic shifting. We did uh actually, yeah, if you come around, we did get to utilize um a part of the frame. There was this random tube here. There was a void. Okay. And our DIT battery is living in this in this void. Ah, nice. Nice. So, we uh so we actually it was it was meant to be. We were supposed to have Di2 on this bike. Unfortunately, you know, it’s a post-apocalypse. You got to use what you can find. Exactly. We We went through the parts spin, which you know you know, first world problems. style parts being had a DI2 aline hub in it. Um, and here it is. But there we go. It looks like there’s been an upgrade in luggage as well. Like tell me about the This looks like a beastly bag. Okay. So, at the other event, we had loads of props in it. We had obviously the the wood saw on the back and we just had a load of junk on the front. Um, so we uh got in touch with our friend Patch at Colin Cycles Works and he made some bags for us. um which we uh he made this massive bag, rack bag, which is the biggest one he’s ever made. Um he’s actually hiding inside this bag. We haven’t let him out yet. He will come out later. Um he’s a tall guy. Say he’s just curled up intricately like a snake. There’s um we we made some uh racks out stainless. Yeah. Um we left them raw because we thought there was a bit too much green going on. And then um he was he’s also just done an exciting collaboration with old man mountain racks. Yeah. Which you might have seen um they’re the easy cages. Okay. Um so it’s a sort of a proprietary system that he has used on his bags and it works really well um on on our forks. Well, I tried to uh go with smallest wheel possible. Yeah. And uh make What size are these? These are 16s uh road 16s like uh Brmpton size. Yeah, I think I think it’s the smallest uh possible I could find uh for a road bike. Yeah. Uh so I I tried to build a build an adult size frame uh for unreasonably small wheels. Yeah, let’s say. So it looks like is this like a mass style seat post? Yeah, that’s a seat mast. Uh um I just custom built the uh the seat mast uh just to to fit the the Brook saddle. Uh featured some classical components. So it’s a Shimano Golden Arrow uh brakes and levers. So refurbished, but they still work great for I think they’re they’re 40 or years old. Uh so it’s a it’s a bit of a mix. It’s also mi a mixed construction because I used welding, tick bracing and traditional bracing. So it’s like free forms of of joining uh uh on the on the bike thing. So tell me about the rear triangle like why it’s so wide and why you went with this construction. Uh well I tried a couple of options. Uh I tried a traditional two two seat stay two two uh chain stays. Uh, I guess I like this this option. Looks cool. It’s It’s quirky. It It’s cool. It looks different. Yeah. Uh, it’s still stiff. Plenty stiff. Uh, so and uh the the the fin seat stay. It gives it the the rear sort of lightness. Okay. So, final question is how did you press on the the headset? Yeah. Uh, did you just hammer the end? actually have an excess of a threaded rod at my shop. So, I built this this custom uh one meter long headpress. So, it’s I I also had to to extend the steer tube. Okay. Yeah. I couldn’t find the ready one, so I I I just welded in a section of of a steer tube. So, uh it was interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I I also plan a front rack for it because there’s miles of real estate on the front uh too. And I I had this idea to uh build a paneer holder. Okay. So, it’s it sits uh in the front. Yeah. Single pier in the front. Uh yeah. So this is a bike we designed uh two years ago for Concord machine which is a I would say contest but not really a contest between uh frame builder mostly in France and it happens every year and this year it was uh in Jura and it was mostly about mountain biking and long distance mountain biking right so we designed we designed it like with the vibe of a old clunker bike uh so it’s super super And uh it’s really um really nice to ride especially uh in the in the mountains of course and also we designed a special handlebar on it. Um when you are in this position it’s kind of a classical mountain bike position but we have a longer stem that you u mostly find shorter stem on mountain bike to have a second position. Okay. Which is more for this long distance and to have like really two different uh position on this this bicycle. Uh also for the this tube it’s it was also like I said the the idea of um making like a like a little signature to the old clunker bike with this top tube and also on this one actually the seats stay are pretty long. Yeah. because we wanted also to use the deformation of the steel okay to have some dump dumper right on it. So this this uh allows also the back to to be more um um more flexible in the in the back. So this is I think the only lugged minivel I’ve ever seen. Yeah. Um so because of like lugs are only particular angles. So, I used a top lug for both the top lug and the bottom lug to be able to get the front ends angles correct. Yeah. Um, and this is a seat lug with the back chopped off. Um, and then my signature is this twin seat stay kind of loop and then a twin seat stay thing going on. Yeah. Um, it was actually built about four years ago back in my old workshop and I thought it would be just really cute for the show. So, and I’m really pleased with how the colors came out. Um, I finished the wheels on Tuesday, I think, as usual, last minute show stuff. So, yeah, bit of internal cable routting just to keep things tidy there. And on the back side, you can see ah, okay. through the through the seat stay. Yeah. Um, other than that, I mean, it’s a mix of mostly secondhand and old parts. So, old Hope hubs, uh, 20-in wheels with old style sun rims, uh, old Sino style cranks, MKS pedals, um, a Brooks saddle that I’ve never seen anywhere else in that color, right, that I found on eBay. So that just kind of really finishes it off, I think. And my trans pride flag hanging on the bars. Um, so it’s a sort of kind of classic British ODAX bike, you know, big comfy 700c tires. Um, nice upright position. Yeah. Uh, but pretty still pretty fast and got the sort of integrated dynamo lights and stuff for like long long orac rander rides. Cool. I make um quite a lot of the separate parts. So, I make the the sort of forks and my own uh my own design. And then they’ve got a matching matching sort of uh twin plate drop out, which is is my own design, too. And then there’s loads of machining like stainless bosses for the for the flat mount on the on the raed fork, which is um it’s quite tricky to do a flat mount on a raed fork, but I I really like that classic look um in combination with the modern components. Uh, I’m always sort of aiming for that that kind of that kind of uh balance between classicism and without it being like pretending it’s the 1950s still. What’s the challenge? Is it like to make it rigid enough to stand up to the brake or is it to get the angle right? It’s more It’s more about like where the angle of the boss is. The lower boss in particular wants to be really close to the dropout. So, so sort of generating enough space to get some threads in there for the for the brake mount. It’s the geometry of it is just a bit challenging. Um, but I’ve I’ve got my system and I’ve got these nice uh turn stainless bosses for it. So, uh yeah, it works well and it keeps that that classic raked look which I really like. Tell me about the flat mounts in the rear. Yeah, so they’ve got like um it’s made the dropout is made of uh of five parts. the two flat mount bosses, the two flat plates, and then the dropout itself. Okay. Um, and I originally designed that to sort of help reflect the the twin plate fork crowns that I put on my bikes. But it’s also quite pragmatic because it allows you to make it as a little subasssembly. So, you can uh you can sort of verify that the flat mounts are in exactly the right place uh before you kind of braze it all up together and make it into a bike. Um, and you also don’t need to like use a long ugly plate dropout or chop away most of the tube for a flat mount boss. Um, which are the other options. It’s it’s a really nice approach for doing it to make it like efficiently and accurately without um without too much bother. It’s a splitable 20in hand using Richie frame couplers with a double uh lock here and Mhm. down the splittered down tube. internal lighting with my own rear light and another diffic difficulty because the cable has to be splitted. Oh yeah. Down here and the down tube derailer needs to be a small one because the wheels are small and Yeah. So there micro shift advant super shot. Yeah. Yeah. It’s going up to 38. Okay. The biggest and a 46 chain wheel. Yeah. So, it should be usable usable for mid-range shields. Okay. Uh, tell me about the the fork. Did you have to How do you find the steer tube that long? Tango is making some 500 mm, but they are not available in Europe. Okay. And now I got some 450 I think from Reols. Yes, it’s Reol and it’s just long enough for me. Yeah, it’s just I cut it. cut off two or three mm in the end. Okay. The uh the forkhead is high too because it has to be wide for the wide fenders. Okay. I’ll have to ride it a longer and with some luggage. Yeah. It’s made for some luggage on the rather big randon rack. It’s between randon and port rack. Yeah. But since there’s no possibility for a rear rack or for low riders, get built or fuel a bigger bag. It’s like a extra tall random bag from the same. Okay, we’re here with Sebastian from Don Sebastiano. Uh tell us about this uh very unique looking creation. Yeah, it’s a 20-in full suspension mountain bike with an electric engine. Oh wow. Yeah. And it’s also with the truss fork and it’s the version two. Last year I presented the version one and this has got a little bit more travel like 102 mm of travel and yeah I think that’s the unique point of this bike. Cool. Yeah. You see the X uh top tube and that’s because of the load for the for the from the kinematic of the rear suspension. That’s also my first full suspension bicycle. done also the first electric. So yeah, there were f many first things on on this bicycle. Yeah, but I’ve already I’ve done already 1,00 kilometers on this bike. So it was raw before and it’s now for people spoke I painted it. I also do bike packing with it. So I went to Mosia to Hungary and yeah 400 kilometers electric bike packing. It’s also a first for me. Looks like it also has uh there’s eyelets so you can mount different things to it. Yeah, exactly. for bike packing. I have a rack on the rear. So I had like two piers here, the art bags in the front and here I I’m mounting some bottle cages for water and underneath also for water. So yeah. Yeah. And here like a top tube bag and Yeah. So I really use it for bike packing, shredding in the trails, going to work. So it’s a do it all bike, I think. Yeah. So we’re here with Chris from Endless Bikes again. Uh tell me about this bike. Um so um we are huge Mini Velo fans and uh my girlfriend went to Japan this year. Ilas went to Chapen two years ago and they are driving many or there are many Minios around. Yeah. And we just love the idea and wanted to do some kind of that and also I was at Defender Fest and met Wiggo from Orange. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And he had the Nutrino with him. Yeah. And so I also rode it and it was like really nice and fun. Uh so yeah, we would we thought we do this for the for the for the show here and also do it little a little twist with the Yeah, literally a twist with the twisted stays uh in the front in the back and in the front just to try it out if it works. Uh incorporate that and Yeah, it looks like it’s got like a P mandreon. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Um we were thinking about the looks for both of the for the show bikes. Yeah. And um then we just uh he said Pete Mondrean and I was like okay he showed it to me and I was like okay that’s Luke. Luke used it a lot for their road cycling teams and so it was like um an easy choice. Um and the guys who did the paint uh the paint shop boys in Bavaria did a really great job because I thought that masking all that stuff separately Yeah. must be really hard. But they did a great job. It’s it looks amazing. Yeah. Yeah. What was your process for constructing the rear end? Like how how many attempts to to get it? It was kind of the first attempt. We just used two very long long tubes, filled them with sand and put them in a rack that they can move and then Ias was um heating it up and I was twisting it and we were just seeing like okay in this degree or more like that than in the front as well. Yeah. And you see it’s kind of different here or here it’s more tighter. It’s more loose and um other way around. So it was a bit of testing but it worked out quite well. Yeah. In the first first attempt and Yeah. Yeah. So how so how much you I assume you had like a long tag end and then you mitered and then Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so the bags the same as for the last friend of us Mole from Rianensburg. He he does the he does the the bags and uh think we think he did a really great job to incorporate the design completely um into the bag as well. A new uh friend of us who’s working uh for us is doing the stem caps himself. They’re really nice touch. And also the Stritzland bars. Uh we got them from Guten Bike and it’s another good bike shop from Munich. But we cut them a bit because they were really really long and it was like okay to get it more compact. And on the first test ride we just had a front brake on and with the mini wayo you can do wheelies so so fast and I just flew on the ground like immediately it was like and here and there and I was like ah right. So you actually part of two brands post is for like the more roady stuff and then what’s this bike? Yeah I mean uh this is what we started with like 10 years back we started making fixed gear bikes. We did it almost for like five four five years just making fixed gear fixed gear bikes. Yeah. And this is an ode to where we started and over the years we developed our own uh split frame coupling system. Okay. And uh the gates belt drive I mean for a belt drive system. So we just integrated the belt drive and the coupler in our fixure frame and tracks bike and we just wanted to make a really cool hip uh tracks bike. So it has a split. There’s like one bolt that pinches it together. Yeah, there’s uh one bolt that pinches both the parts together. Okay. Uh the curve you see it primary takes care of this movement and there’s a dowel pin system inside. Okay. Which does not uh let it have a stiff um what makes it stiff on the sideways. Yeah. So there’s both here. Okay. Yeah. So you got a split here and this and there. Yeah. Uh where’s the frame split to put the belt? Yeah. Uh it’s near the dropout here. Okay. So that you split and uh it’s it’s almost uh hidden so that you and you know you can’t really make it where uh the split is. Yeah. Yeah. Is there any inspiration for the paint? Yeah. It’s uh where we come from Cotor. Okay. It’s uh full of peacocks and it’s like a peacock in a forest kind of a theme. Yeah. Of the paint. And we recently redid our badge. Uh so if you see it’s really what where we come from the peacock, the mountains and the coconut trees all nice stitched together. So we’re here with Rafa and we’re going to talk about the mini Rafa from Vello Lab. Uh tell me about this bike. Right. Yeah. So this is the the first uh uh 20-in bike that we made. Yeah. So usually we make like cargo bikes, bigger bikes. Well, and you guys primarily only use aluminum in the frames. Only aluminum. Yeah. So this is our material. Oh, what? Why? Well, so the the founder uh loves aluminium. Uh he comes from Athens and you know some trends there. We got also all the aluminium from there. Yeah, it’s very clean if you cut it. So your tools uh will last very long. It can easily weld it after this and also uh paint it. So we also paint it in house and it’s way easier. With steel took way longer. You have to clean it and your tools getting dull. It’s easy to work with and it’s light. Yeah. Yeah. Well, walk me through the bike. It looks like it’s got a carbon 4. No, it’s aluminium forum. Yeah, true. Uh we are um so we we we know don’t use um carbon on our bikes. So only like materials we try like to what is like uh easier to recycle. Yeah. Um so it’s like the the same fork as we use in our cargo bikes, but we made the steer longer. Yeah. So also the the completely designs like a a shrink design from the from the uh cargo bike that we have. Uh talking about baskets, tell me about like the front uh mounting system and platform. Yeah, this is the first version of the of the of the rack. So we try like to make something neat and small. So also that we maybe like can put it off. We we’re not sure if this is like the the end version. But yeah, this is like also like a aluminum platform. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, we we powder coat with a super super strong durable powder coat. So it’s doesn’t doesn’t scratch so easy. Yeah. Yeah. But we some people ask like is it possible to put like a a beer box on it? We say like maybe probably but not so strong. We have to maybe reinforce it a little bit. Yeah. So one of the big challenges with like smaller wheel bikes is uh finding a a good derailer that doesn’t hang too low. What What do you guys do? Here’s the thing. So I I was looking I mean I I built some bikes uh some 20-in bikes before um or changes some gears from internal to external and and I saw like okay this this this doesn’t work. So I I had one Saint Derella laying around so it works. Uh well the idea of this bike was to rethink a utility bike in a classic mixer look. Yeah. So the customer wanted to have a pretty easy and comfortable daily use bike. Yeah. So that’s why I came up with the idea to make a step through frame. Makes it easy to get up and down from the bike. Yeah. And then with the custom fork and stem, I want to create like the perfectly balanced geometry for the rider. And with the front rack there, I think that’s like a gives the bike a distinguished look. Uh, but also combines like lightweight design with the webbing with um having the opportunity to put small parts on it without having them falling through. Yeah. And then I have some fit lock magnets on here which you can put on this tailored um bag on it to run your daily errands. Sturdy double kickstand gives it a a good stand so you don’t have to worry with a fully loaded front rack. Yeah. Um so what’s up with this tube? Um well that’s at one point some the design uh part but I wanted to bring some extra stiffness into the frame cuz it was my actually my first uh step through frame give more support for the seat tube and yeah that’s my take on it and trying to make it look good. What’s this? Is this sleeved or what’s Okay, it’s extra sleeve uh to give the seat tube some extra support for those little tubes here. Yeah. Um Yeah. Well, it’s like completely inner cable routting. The light cable goes in here as well as like shifting and the brake hose but comes out here at the end of the bike. Um yeah, and I think special thing is uh the front rack of course. Can you uh demo the the bag going? Yeah, of course. So, there are the four fit lock magnets here. And it’s like here are the opposite parts on the back. Yeah. And I hope this works now. Been practicing. Mhm. Yeah. Nice. Goes in here. So, it’s really sturdy. Doesn’t come off that easy. Yeah. And if you want to take it off, you just push it to the side. Yeah. We have here our first uh in-house full electric bike. Um this is uh produced with the ray drive from Rainers Technology. This comes with the big down tube. Here is the the uh battery. Yeah. Inhoused. And then the motor is here the Malle X20. And this is one one of the lightest real motors. We choose this. And then we have here also the in-housem made rag. Mhm. And this bike was uh built for a customer which are um very um keen on the electric bike uh because we are in Shukat very hilly and they they asked always to to build a custom electric bike for them. And um this was our solution for it with a nice uh uh gradient color co uh because here we had this stone tube which is very present and we wanted to have a very nice gradient to to to fade this a bit away. Yeah. And what was the what was the inspiration for the rack? Um it was actually a chair design. A chair design. Yeah. Okay. Cool. chair design which I I think it was an Italian um and they had this very nice that the that this that the the the holding tubes are not in the in the same plane as the okay where you sit in and then I was this was a lot of uh I don’t know thinking about how how to create the direct because and it worked out very well because it was also very big hustle to get this in a very sweet yeah this is the crema a psychonaut. Um it is the evolution of uh our gravel bike. Basically, we started off with the first formatted uh large formatted uh gravel bike like 2014 with the Duo. And this is the follow-up version Psychonaut. Uh if you know the definition, it means inner journey, self-discovery. And that’s what this bike is all about. It’s a about free to roam, go beyond the horizon, disco self-discovery. Uh we did a collab with Sandis a cult. They did the artwork for us on this and it’s all about the Sonora toad which uh a guy discovered in 1966. Um he was the first guy to lick the toad. It’s basically a DMT trip and that’s the whole idea is like sometimes when you’re out in the bike you discover things about yourself that you didn’t know and uh so we you know the bike doesn’t have any special paint where if you lick it you get performance enhancing things. We’re working on a special top coating that if you lick it, you do get the DMT trip, but that I think is a ways down the road. So it’s it’s based on a 700 wheel. Um you can fit up to like a 55 in it. Uh, we wanted, you know, like I said, to create a bike that is capable of, uh, taking on anything that you would throw at it. So, off-road, um, you know, all the way up to what you would want almost a mountain bike for. And we use a slightly longer chain stay to build in some comfort with the bike and get that clearance. And, uh, it’s, yeah, it’s a great bike packing bike. So, are these production, semi-production, semi-production? So these are um as all the previous KMAS are being made in uh Barcelona by Matia who has Legor, we’ve grown together over the years and he’s producing this limited batch of the Psychonaut. So this bike is a quite special bike because he has got a parallelogram 4. So it’s all um two shock and linkage and it’s full steel. Okay. So all the linkage are plasma cut. Uh every little part uh is made in my uh workshop and um and all the color and design comes from the place where I live. It’s like a plateau and it’s quite dry. So this is the soil uh color. I mean how do you design the the kinematics of the the suspension? Um I did um mostly drawings like mostly 2D for the the the ratio and the the curve and etc. Yeah. And then I made the 2D become a 3D like more doing it because I’m not uh I’m not like an engineer in like 3D drawing. But uh but yes, I I’ve made little adjustment on the whis but like uh yeah. Yeah. I love how it’s like a mix of like country western but very also modern at the same time. Yeah, it yeah come from the the the place where I live. It’s uh really similar to like what you find in desert. So, really rocky and uh and the bike was made to travel. So, I’ve got um a set of racks that goes over the f and this one as well who goes um over the front rack. Okay. So, all the weight is actually uh on the fork on the front wheel and not suspended. Okay. So, it doesn’t affect like the settings of the shark and Yeah. Well, made for Thunder Fender Fest. Uh the theme was tandem. Yeah. So I was inspired like oh I got to have tandemss. So I looked up in marketplace and I found this old frame builder. Yeah. But it was a bit wiggly. So I reinforced it for and now it’s a lot better. And I made all the backs like Muppet Show themes. Yeah. And so all the characters are like frame builders I know. Yeah. And it was supposed to go to Sweden with my buddy Anders. Yeah. But that didn’t work out in the end. But I decided, you know, to take to Fender Fest and to here to show it. Where were your reinforcements? Was it this this uh slanted tube or Yeah. Yeah, those slanted tubes and goes Yeah. And that was quite uh easy to do, you know. Yeah. And it looks like you you made a coupled. Yeah. Yeah. Those are rally car couplers. Okay. Those are well cheap. I just drilled them out a bit to get them lighter, but they work, so that’s fine. Yeah. Uh, tell me about your shifter and your controls here. Oh, yeah. I just always, uh, DIY those. Those are like 105 shifters. You buy them like €10. Yeah. And that’s like six feet in the back. So, I love it. You know, it’s very simple. Yeah. A interesting bike by the builder Drew. Uh, in some ways it reminds me of the French petite pouture, but this is the grand pouture because it is much longer. Uh, I love the very industrial look, you know, the kind of the raw metal, uh, the s the the brass brazing and lots of interesting things. This, uh, front rack looks removable. And it also looks like it’s using uh, track dropouts here as an attachment point. It’s got linkage steering, but a really short one. uh but but it manages to have like a long platform because of this really big boom tube. Uh this is at the pinion booth. So of course it’s running a pinion P uh 18. And moving to the back here, massive kick plate stand for the double kickstand and this super long rack that also looks like it can be removed over here. Lots of cool detail, lots of cuts and miters uh to make this bike uh truly like a longtail or grand pouture for the apocalypse. Right. So, we’re at the Tonk booth, uh, which has like a very delightful meaning. What does that mean? Uh, when you end up somewhere and you cannot cycle, you need to push your bike. It’s like a Finnish bike slang. Nice. Yeah. Well, tell me about this bike over here. Uh, this our brand new frame set. This like randon air bike. Really lightweight steel bike. Yeah. We are just launching it now. We’ve been doing it like six years almost. And we are happy now. Really happy now. finally show it to the people, you know. Yeah. What’s the geometry? Is it low trail? Load trail. Yeah, low trail. Yeah. Okay. Uh, and what is it built around 650b or 700? It depends about size. Like smallest frames are 26 in. This one is 650B and those are 28 in. The bigger ones. Okay. We got uh seven different sizes. I noticed it’s doing the the French fit. Is this how you you’re designing the bike? Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. is it works really well with blow trail because it’s quite takes quite easy this wobbly thing. Yeah. So we can avoid that bit with that French fist. The frame is from uh Columbus. Yeah. And the fork is made by Reos. We got custom legs, heat treated tubes. So it was quite journey to make the fork right way and also get the safety test like it’s not built like a touring bike. It’s more of like Yeah. You know, like like touring bike. Yeah. Yeah. Like random air bike. Yeah. But meant to be like carrying with the load, of course, because it’s a low trail bike. It works better with the front load. So, do you know what the rear rear rear chain stay length is? 440 in this size and 460 in the 28 version. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there’s the reinforced head tube, CNC machined. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it’s very traditional like we didn’t try to invent the bicycle a new. So thing is the progressive geometry like across the size range like really wide size range. Okay. And the proportional stiffness of the tubing and that’s kind of like the special thing in my opinion. Yeah. What’s the availability like? Do you do you do it in batches? Like how often how often do you guys batch produce? Well, first pass coming out in mid of November like so one month like the first samples we have here and the first batches. Yeah. in one month us out and then we don’t know really like how it’s going to go from there. Right. Right. Let’s see. Hopefully well. Right. Right. So, this is a Rash bike and to me it kind of has mixedy hard tail mountain bike vibes. Uh some interesting things, you know, you got the truss fork in the front. Uh this adds lots of rigidness and also like this double top tube and gusset here uh near the the seat tube. What really caught my eye initially was this rack, which is kind of interesting. It’s mounted onto the seat posts. Um, like a really cool kind of minimalist rack and the paint of it reminds me of like just some 80s uh like metal/fantasy comic book novels. All right, so we’re here with Telbert from Telbert Bikes. Uh, tell me tell me how this purple bike came about. Okay, so uh it’s a it’s a bike for my son um who is is nine and I said that he could uh he could get a bike as soon as he could ride a fulls size full full size wheel bike. Uh he gave me two briefs. He wanted it to be purple and he wanted it to look like a dinosaur. So, it’s got this uh reptile um skin-like effect with the crackle paint. Um it shifts color um with the iridescent paint on the fork and um on the stem and the saddle and also in between the cracks and it’s got a little u detail on the seat for for a tail. Yeah, the fork also looks fairly organic, you know. Yeah. So, uh, the fork is a, uh, DAR fork. Uh, it’s a carbon fork and, yeah, it’s it sort of fit with the theme of the, uh, of the frame. Yeah. Well, any other interesting build details or construction bits? Uh, so the thing that’s been getting quite a lot of attention is the purple ShraMM chain, which just so happened again to match the uh the build. Um, yeah, I built it actually for my girlfriend or Fancy. We are couple for 10 years now. Yeah, last year I built um a runer bike for myself. The first frame I built myself and I was so impressed how it rides that I decided she needs something with a rope bar. Yeah. And the best solution was uh to choose a randoner. Lightweight, more lightweight than mine actually, and uh which is comfortable, which is short enough, which has um no toe overlap was very important. So it’s 26 in. Over the last maybe 10 years, I collected information how to do that. Talked with other people like uh Thomas Becka from Mlass Cycles and watched a lot of videos of Brian Chapman from the US. And so that inspired me to build this bike. So how did you get the like what things did you do to get the weight down? Or I chosen tubes with very thin wall thicknesses but not so thin that you lose safety. Um then I cut out some love statements like a heart in the front, a heart in the in the bracket shell. Yeah. Um to reduce weight where it’s not needed. Uh for the rack I used very thin wall tubing. It’s u.5 and 3 mm um to get the weight down. And actually we need a rack to carry 2 kg not more. One option I chose was really hard for me. I didn’t want to use carbon fiber, but the rails for the Infinity bike seat are available in carbon fiber and you save 100 g. Yeah. And that’s what I chose. And the group said could be a Dura is, but in my opinion, a runer is better with a 105 or Ultegra. And yeah, otherwise small, very thin spokes, lightweight fenders. Very cool detail is how the light the the electricity for the light is transferred through the frame. There’s a insulated copper plate inside the head too. Yeah. With a brass finger and so you don’t see a cable. That’s really cool. I made the tail light by myself. Uh which was hard because uh it’s very tiny space. You need to have a screw there. Uh but it worked actually. Um, the hanger for the rear brake also was tweaked a little to have an opening to see through. Uh, tell me about the tell me a little bit more about the group set. What What’s a chain ring combination? Uh, the combination is 4626. Barely working, but it’s working. And the small chain wheel really is just for steep climbs. Yeah. Every other teran actually can go on the big chain wheel. The cassette is 1132. It’s a old Strand XO uh made from one lump of stainless. Yeah. Uh hard to get but I managed it. And so the combination was working with a Shimano 6,700 2×10. Yeah. It’s the most beautiful group set I know in the Shimano range. I love it and I had it laying around just for that bite waiting 4 years. Now it’s finished and I’m so happy. This is our stock model, the GMX Plus. Originally a like a drop bar model, but it can be equally well set up as a like a flat bar ATV. Uh, so clearance for up to 3-in tires. This particular one is a personal project for one of our dealers here in Germany from Bikin. Uh, so this is 2.8 on this. Maximum would be 3.0. So 29 by 3.0. About the geometry, is it slack? I mean, it looks fairly normal in the front. Yeah, it’s a pretty slack geometry. And this fork was developed together with the frame. So it’s a 300 sorry 430 axle to crown and 55 mil offset to kind of get the the uh the trail that we were looking for. And we did a lot of test riding like with angle sets and stuff on a test mule to try to figure out where we wanted to be. And then this is what we landed on. Uh I guess one of the standout things that we haven’t seen many other people pick up on is these offset mounts on the down tube. So, you can still run a full frame bag and have your water bottle bottles on the side. And yeah, one of the usual comments is like, “Oh, but don’t you hit your legs on these things, but you surprisingly you don’t, which is pretty nice.” And then we’ve also got back here uh also spaced 64 mil apart. You can do uh auto cages back there unless unless your feet are too big to Great. Yeah. This is like the Split Works project. Okay. Which is a subdivision of cyber cycles. Split Works. Yeah. And um these are two bikes. The other one is over there. And the idea is um to have a longd distance randonering whatever kind of all-road bike which um we can use in all over Europe without flying. Oh yeah. So uh it has u zouplers. Okay. Okay. Are those by Cyber Cycles or is it that uh No, it’s a it’s a Santana tandem patent and they if you don’t build a tandem, you are free to you can buy them to uh build them into like a single bike. What holds it together? Is there a bolt somewhere? Yeah, an M6 bolt here, an M6 bolt there, and there’s a hydraulic coupler in there like Zeno, those small ones. And an electric coupler for the rear light. Okay. Yeah. So the idea is to uh be to not rely on like bike space and trains. Yeah. And um like for example on the trains between Germany and France um don’t have uh uh yeah bike space. Right. Right. Right. Ringoing stuff with luggage. It’s okay in in in my experience as long as you like enter the train and then you arrive at the destination and you assemble the bike. But from Germany to France, you often times have to change trains. Yeah. Long story short, this is the bag. Okay. This fits into this. Yeah. And the bag itself, um, it fits into a like a post. Do you say post box? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so we can we arrive at the destination, assemble the bikes, pack the bags, ship the bags to our cycling destination, and take the take the train back. Cool. So, that’s the Yeah. The koka is just a little animal from Australia and it’s known to be like the happiest animal in the world with a big smile on the face all the time. And I like to picture my customers, cyclist customers as happy as a ka when they ride the bike. So yeah. Cool. Well uh tell me up about this frame. Is it steel? Is it titanium? Yeah. So this uh frame is filleted bra steel mix of f uh steel tubes and stainless steel hardware like the dropouts, the bosses, the fork, everything. Yeah. uh like every contact surface basically, right? And and the idea was to like introduce a new model of the range and provide a very wide view of what it is capable of. Yeah. Like it could be a winter road bike with spenders. It could be a summer gravel bike like to go fast on the little tracks. Yeah. And and so this is my personal bike. Okay. Because sometime you have to build one for you. Yeah. Tell me about the fork. It’s very striking. And yeah, in the fork. Thank you very much. Uh the fork. So last year during bispoke, we introduced that kind of design for the track bike that we introduced and the people really loved it and a few few people were like, hey, do you plan on releasing a gear then with disc? Uh I’m like didn’t thought about that at the moment, but then it just all makes sense. Is the fork crown 3D printed or is Yeah, so it is 3D printed and then I have to like basically repolish everything and just make everything straight. Uh and then it’s for now it’s internally um braced logged and uh in the future it will be external. So I will keep all the curves and the sharp edges but just uh an external log because I think it will look even more um uh I don’t know like striking between tradition and modernity like you will have that lugged fork but then at the same time it will be like 3D printed fork crown and Yeah. Yeah. What are the fork blades? Those are Columbus Max. Yeah. I’ve always been in love with the with those. So, probably my favorite tubes out of any catalog, any brands. And yeah, the Columbus Max blades are just something else for me. I love this little dainty uh brake bridge/fender holder here. Yeah. I mean, so basically, I wish just in a rush before the show and I was like, what’s the quickest solution, easier solution to make a nice um boss like fender holder? Yeah. I was like, yeah, just bend a little rod. It was basically a TIG welding stick. Yeah. And I just cut it and weld the boss. And I also have this one. It’s very just unique uh and very light as well because I don’t like the bulky bridges with the boss and everything. I I tend to go with minimalist minimalism at some point. And it looks like the the top tube’s flattened a bit. Yeah. So this is uh squished in house as well. Uh we also developed that for the track bike last year. Yeah. And yeah, I’ve been wanting uh looking forward to that moment like when a customer comes to you and like, “Hey, I want a flat tattoo because it looks so mad and so crazy.” Yeah. And on the technical side, I don’t know if it adds really anything comfort vertically and on the side probably a bit more stiffness, but I’m not even sure you can feel it. It’s just more lay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it really like slims it down. also like a nice integration or almost like a integrates with the CS binder. Continues in the line and it’s it’s I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Yeah. Typically, we interview builders. This time we’re going to interview the customer who had the bike built. Uh so tell me about the bike and and why it’s so dirty. It’s a titanium custom bicycle from um made by um uh Firefly Bicycles in Boston. Uh, it’s also has a titanium fork also made by Firefly Bicycles. Titanium custom handlebar by Ty Cycles in Portland. Yeah. Um, and Tyon from uh, Witslingers made all the custom backs for the frame. Yeah. And uh, well for the whole bike. Uh, I picked it up in May this year. Um, and in July I went to Canada for uh, the Great Divide mountain bike route. I did it together with my daughter. It was awesome. And yeah, we did we did it in a touristic uh pace, so we had all the time to uh enjoy nature and take pictures and was beautiful. The bike performed well. I loved it. It has a bit longer chain stays. It’s very comfortable. Yeah, I didn’t want a race bike. I wanted a comfortable touring bike. Special thing about the frame is I asked for two extra tubes. The one over here and the one over here. Yeah, I started with the the tube here because I wanted to grab the bike easily because here it’s also a bottle and there’s also cow all the time. So here it’s easy to pick up the bike. Yeah. If I have to carry it on upstairs or through a river or whatever. Um and here’s an extra one uh uh just to turn the bike or with a full crane bag. It’s e it’s difficult to grab the tube. So smart. That’s not necessary, but that’s the advantage of custom. You can you can ask whatever you want. They have some different models to start with, but they start from scratch. So, this is their pretty new ATB model with a a very new ATB fork also. Yeah. And then, well, they start from scratch. What do you want? Where will you use it? What will you use it for? What are your dimensions, your body measurements? It’s an extensive process to talk through um what you what you will use it for what you what you want and also the color scheme you can ask for whatever you want it’s anodized so this is bronze natural titanium and purple anodized That was