Wheelbase
Calm at speed, quick in a lane.
Tell us your height and we draw the rest. It starts with your legs and the roads you ride. Longer stays and a longer wheelbase for the big days out, shorter for the commute through town.
Custom steel frames / Sheffield / Since 2011
Brazed
to fit.
Frameworks hand-brazes road, gravel and commuter frames from 4130 steel, to the exact numbers of the person who will ride it. We service whatever you wheel in, too.
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01 / Made to measure
Your height.
Our drawing.
Reach and stack
How far you stretch, how high you sit.
The two numbers that decide whether a bike feels like yours. Slide the height and watch both move, along with the top tube.
Head angle and trail
Steering that does what you meant.
Steeper for a sharp road bike, slacker for gravel. Trail follows from the fork offset, and we set both to the wheel size you will actually ride.
Saddle height
Measured from your inside leg.
We work it out in the fitting, draw the whole frame full size on the wall, and only then cut a single tube.
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- Frame
- 55
- Top tube
- 556
- Reach
- 393
- Stack
- 566
- Saddle
- 723
02 / Pick your build
One frame.
Three jobs.
Road
Light, quick, 28 mm tyres.
A steep 73 degree head angle, short stays and drop bars. For early starts, club runs and Peak District climbs.
- Tyre28 mm
- Head73.0°
- Stays405 mm
Gravel
Room for 42 mm and a bad road.
Slacker, longer and wider in the tyre, with flared drops. Tan walls, because gravel bikes are allowed to look good.
- Tyre42 mm
- Head71.0°
- Stays428 mm
Commuter
Mudguards, rack, sit-up bars.
An upright riser bar, a rack that takes two panniers and full-length guards that clear a 38 mm tyre. Built to be locked up outside.
- Tyre38 mm
- Head70.0°
- Stays440 mm
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Bars
03 / Paint
Ten colours.
Deep clearcoat.
Choose a colour
Signal
Our house colour. Acid lime over a metallic base, three coats of clear, flatted and polished by hand.
The head badge
Enamelled to match.
Every badge is filled in your colour and every frame is numbered under the bottom bracket. This one is FW-0217, cut for a 178 cm rider.
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FW-01Signal / gloss clearcoat
04 / The bench
Service,
on the bench.
We build bikes, so we know how they come apart. Bring us anything with two wheels. Most jobs are back with you in two working days.
- Safety check
- £35
- Brakes, gears, bolts and tyres. While you wait.
- Full service
- £95
- Strip, degrease, regrease, new cables, true the wheels.
- Overhaul
- £185
- Every bearing out and back in, new chain and tape.
- Hand-built wheel
- £120
- 32 or 36 spokes, laced, tensioned and stress-relieved.
05 / The small print
Made slowly,
on purpose.
- Frames built a year
- 0
- by two people and a very good jig
- Weeks to deliver
- 0wks
- from the fitting to the first ride
- Steel
- 0
- chromoly, butted at 0.9 / 0.6 / 0.9 mm
- Tubing, 55 cm frame
- 0g
- brazed with silver, not welded
06 / Come in
Book a fitting.
Ninety minutes on the fitting bike with a tape, a plumb line and a cup of tea. £60, refunded against your frame.
Thank you. We will find you a slot this month and write back within a day.