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  • Middleburn lives!
  • tang
    Free Member

    Here’s the blurb
    Middleburn Lives!
    The brand name of iconic UK bicycle component manufacturer, Middleburn Cycle Components has been bought by another cycle component manufacturer, Staffordshire based BETD Cycle Components.
    Hampshire based Middleburn are well known amongst custom bike builders and enthusiasts for their sought after cycle components which include retro-style, British made, chainrings and cranksets. The company went into voluntary liquidation in September after ceasing to trade in August.
    The brand will now live on thanks to the acquisition by BETD who are part of the KMF Group, specialists in precision sheet metal and precision engineering products.
    BETD Managing Director Kate Lewis commented: “We are delighted to be able to keep the Middleburn brand alive. We shall manufacture and continue the supply of many of their iconic products and will also be able to increase their availability through our existing online store and growing trade accounts.”
    KMF Group is one of the largest privately owned engineering firms in the Midlands. It employs over 450 in its state of the art factories in Newcastle-under-Lyme and at a manufacturing facility in Slovakia.
    KMF Group managing director Gareth Higgins said: “BETD are now an established part of our group supported by a fully integrated suite of our precision engineering facilities. The business will continue to grow leveraging off group functions such as marketing, logistics and finance.
    “I would like to assure all former customers of Middleburn Cycle Components that we will continue to supply their sought after components, manufactured to the same exacting standards that customers expect. We also now have the exciting opportunity to add new products to the portfolio backed up by our first class customer service.

    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    Hopefully they will undercut SJS grossly inflated profiteering prices

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    That said, BETD haven’t been ones to push things forward, their list of products is mostly suspension linkages for obsolete bikes! For a company who’d chainrings used to be as popular as Middleburns, they don’t even make a narrow/wide one!

    It’d be nice to see them up there with Hope especially with the costs of imported bits going up.

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    Nipper99
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    😀

    I believe SJS have reduced some of their prices.

    Nipper99
    Free Member

    In fact that is more that 😀 that has made my day – I hope Matt has a job?

    Nipper99
    Free Member

    And ‘your arse’ to all the Middleburn haters

    wiggles
    Free Member

    So Middleburn to be made in Slovakia then?

    greyspoke
    Free Member

    That is nice. If you are listening BETD – how about a Boost length axle?

    ampthill
    Full Member

    their list of products is mostly suspension linkages for obsolete bikes!

    You say it like its bad thing. I’m relying on them for when my bearings need doing…

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    So Middleburn to be made in Slovakia then?

    The blanks are (were) already forged in Italy, they were just machined in the UK.

    You say it like its bad thing. I’m relying on them for when my bearings need doing…

    For your 1996 GT LTS? Or a linkage for a 10 year old Iron Horse Sunday?

    Bearing kits I get, it’s just a list of bearings and a price, they probably don’t pick the bearings off the shelf until it’s ordered. The rest makes you wonder if they have stock of any of it, or if it’s just one offs they’ve made previously and kept the drawings in a file somewhere.

    Hadge
    Free Member

    We as in BETD will be making our parts here in the UK just to answer your questions.

    BruceWee
    Full Member

    Great news!

    tang
    Free Member

    All the best BETD!

    Ming the Merciless
    Free Member

    Well done chaps!

    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    Brilliant news, well done BETD

    Rik
    Free Member

    SJS are still robbing sods – £200 for a chainring!

    This fabulous news – so chuffed they will be bringing the name and products back!

    That is nice. If you are listening BETD – how about a Boost length axle?

    You can get a boost chainline if 1×10/11 by using the rohloff spider

    Atomizer
    Full Member

    Proper Boost spider wanted for 2×11.
    Emailed them and said they were going to make them… just before they shut down 🙁

    nixie
    Full Member

    Nice one. Still want a set of cranks so hopefully these will still be made.

    Speshpaul
    Full Member

    Well done BETD.
    I would like to think it was my idea, but I think you had thought of it first:-)

    Hadge
    Free Member

    Still want a set a set of cranks

    They certainly will nixie

    plus-one
    Full Member

    Great news 😀

    cheddarchallenged
    Free Member

    Rock and

    Nipper99
    Free Member

    At the risk off seeming pushy Hadge any idea when bits might be available – am halfway through a build that has ground to a halt because I was going to use an Incy spider (square taper).

    frankconway
    Full Member

    Possibly great news but……
    – will it be same design
    – will it be same technology
    – will it be same product quality
    – will products have same warranty
    – when will products, of same quality & performance standards, be available

    Could be good news but so many questions to ask.

    onlysteel
    Free Member

    Wot the Buccaneer said. Managed to get in quick and get a couple of direct mount singlespeed rings, but their profiteering did leave a very bad taste.
    Looks promising, hope it comes to fruition.

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    Possibly great news but……
    […]
    – will it be same product quality
    […]
    Could be good news but so many questions to ask.

    Whilst I knocked BETD up there—-^ for being a bit behind the times, and I’ve apologised to Hadge/Paul by e-mail, quality isn’t something you’d ever have to worry about with their stuff, I never once had a problem with their hubs and I’m a serial destroyer of hubs!

    Nipper99
    Free Member

    I got my first Middleburn bits from BETD today – be gentle with them as they’re still finding their feet – sounded like stuff came from Middleburn in random boxes in various states of completion. I know have my sqr taper Incy Spider. 😀

    dirtyrider
    Free Member

    they ever going to update the website? you cannot buy what you cannot see

    T1000
    Free Member

    They have updated the site, just not the banner on the front page if you go into the site it’s all listed (although limited stock on most items)

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