There was a ‘show us’ thread a couple of weeks, perhaps a month ago of a small USA frame bike/builder company.
Can’t remember for the life of me their name.
All I remember is one that was pictured came from these classifieds.
Looked at the company website and they had been producing bikes for 20 years with an emphasis on evolution through customer feedback. Probably about a half dozen models in the range.
Looked like he was a one man operation on the fabrication side.
Think they only had one British importer (a shop) in England somewhere.
Can anyone help with a name please?

Jeff Jones?

http://www.jonesbikes.com/

Soma Fabrication?

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Neither of them but thank you.

Those Jeff Jones have a strange front end eh?

De Salvo

http://www.desalvocycles.com

Jim Kish

http://www.kishbike.com

Strong

http://www.strongframes.com

Quiring (I recently bought one of these)

http://www.quiringcycles.net

This guy here is the godfather of frame building.

http://www.stevepottsbicycles.com/

and then there is Kent Eriksen

http://kenteriksen.com/

I think you’ll find Charlie is the Godfather.

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Cunningham doesn’t count, he doesn’t make his own frames anymore….

http://www.englishcycles.com/

http://www.ventanausa.com

Sycip?

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[/quote]Cunningham doesn’t count, he doesn’t make his own frames anymore….

Perhaps not under the terms of the OP, but as an innovator, I doubt any frame buider-engineer has been as infuential

http://www.cunninghambikes.com/innovation.html

Gunnar bikes come through Rock’n’Road, I think that may be what you’re referring to >>link<<

Jay

soulcraft ?

Ventana was the company I was after,big thanks ajr. Much appreciated.
All the other posts have been really interesting to check out as well. A lot of them I have never heard of before but now I am keen on some further research into some.
Soulcraft have really caught my attention.
Thanks guys.

http://www.waltworks.com/dev/index.php

wish i had’nt clicked on the english cycles link i will be drooling over them for sometime!!

stoemper.com

Waltworks blog makes for great reading….if you’re a nerdlinger like me.

Waterford and Gunnar through Rock n Road in Southampton great frames and great shop.

Slight hijack, but does anyone have or know much about Waltworks frames? They seem good value for custom.

Walt posts a lot on the mtbr frame forum. Seems a very knowledgable and well trusted builder.
Functional over form. Very competent with 29ers.
Me? I’d love a Wolfhound or a ByStickel.

Riverside Cycle Centre are the UK importer of Ventana and for any info please contact riversidecycles@hotmail.com or 01621 858240. Alan.

Waltworks blog makes for great reading….if you’re a nerdlinger like me.

Slight hijack, but does anyone have or know much about Waltworks frames? They seem good value for custom.

friend of ours lives in Boulder and is friends with Walt, and has a garage full of custom builds of every flavour. Very nice, built to rider weight limit so I couldn’t borrow any of them (hardly a biff but mate is even lighter). He spent most our trip out there riding a 6″ 29er FS prototype (think steel Bullit with clown wheels).