Having left Planet X and On One ,we’ve been waiting to see where Brant Richards would pop up next in the bike business and now all has been revealed.
Today sees the launch of Pact Bikes, a company which claims it will build bikes to meet riders needs/briefs/ideas.
As they say on their so far minimalist website:
“We’re wanting to make great bikes with great people, and we’d love you to be involved, either by coming up with a great bike, saying you’d be interested in buying one of the great bikes that someone’s made with us, or saying “no, that looks daft”.”
But when we asked Brant if this would be similar to the Internet Community Bike project he replied: “That’s design by committee which I’ve never been a fan of. This is design by a rider for other riders” – “We come up with the design together”.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this one turns out. In the meantime here’s the Pact Bikes pitch…
“Do you have a bike in your head that nobody makes? Does your mate? Do you want to see what other people dream of?
Sure you do.
We want to work with people who have great ideas, to get those ideas to happen.
So you can pitch your ideas to us. If we like them, we’ll throw them out there and see what everyone thinks.
And the best ones, we’ll make. And if we make a bike with you, we’ll sell it to you at an incredible price, and then for every one we sell, we’ll give you a slice of the action – yes – we’ll pay you a royalty on every one.”
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That website is brilliant! I like the idea.
Can I have a 26″ wheeled fs with 5″ of travel & 140mm fork…or is that now too niche.
I have a bike in mind….but no money and no one else would probably ever buy one….but apart from those minor problems I’M IN!
24″ 100mm travel bike with slack head angle for kids, that doesn’t weigh a ton and doesn’t cost the earth 🙂
My ideal bike? The one I have just with a better paint job. It looks a lot more worn in than you might expect from the way I mince on it 😆
Sounds exactly like how Kingdom Bike Project setup initially.
http://www.wearpact.com/women/bottoms/bikini.html
He has an interesting website
I think the page before that has a better URL…
http://www.wearpact.com/women/bottoms.html
And to even things up, here’s one for the ladies.
http://www.wearpact.com/men/bottoms.html
Were definitely going to be doing bikes (but not pants) for both genders.
Carbon 45650b!!!! Obviously with a different name…
“Leku said: On October 13, 2014
Can I have a 26″ wheeled fs with 5″ of travel & 140mm fork…or is that now too niche.”
Just check in the nearest skip
Hmmm…. now there’s an interesting idea. I’ve had a few novel ideas about bike design in the past but no idea where to go with them so perhaps this may be the answer if future.
One question though, what about intellectual property rights? I don’t know much about them but I could imagine it being a potential minefield
Slack HA, long TT, low bb, short stays. 27.5. Bright yellow. Maybe green.
Can I have some royalties?
I forgot…. 120mm rear, 150mm front.
Call it ‘THE ENDURO’.
Kingdom Bike did something similar a few/couple of years ago, but I don’t think it took off really.
twistedpencil: here’s a kids 24″ proper mtb by btr http://www.btr-fabrications.com/products/ripper/