J. Guillem – New Name On The Ti Block

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Jan Willem Sintnicolaas has been a busy chap. Having been involved in bike companies for many years (working years ago as Airborne’s distributor, remember them? Then setting up Van Nicolas, them too) he sold up his interest in Van Nicolas and moved to Majorca to ride bikes and lead an enviable semi-retired life.

It seems that the allure riding bikes in the sunshine wears off after a while (though we’d be happy to try that out sometime) and Jan decided he wanted to get back in to designing titanium bikes again. In February, he launched J.Guillem Bikes – which is an odd name, pronounced “J. Ki-Jem” according to Jan – it’s simply ‘Jan-Willem’ in Mallorcan.

There are the usual Ti road bikes as you’d expect, but there are also a couple of 29er hardtails nestling in the range of brand new designs. One is the Tomir – a fully rigid bike undoubtably designed to be ridden very fast. There’s also the slightly more all round Atalaya, which features hub gears and a belt drive, with a neat bolt-through seatstay for belt fitting.

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Bikes are currently only available through the online shop (link at the bottom) though they’re working to establish some dealers around the world but we’ll let you know if that changes.

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The Tomir. Our legs hurt already
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Studio side-on love for the Tomir
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The more all-round Atalaya
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Neatly integrated Rohloff

 

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Lots of neat touches like these cable guides
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No missing the name, even if it’s hard to pronounce.

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Definitely not out of a catalogue
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Can’t fault the details

 

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Mr Sintnicolaas in Black and White moodiness

The website is up and running now – https://jguillem.com/our-bikes and we’ll bring you a test of a bike when we can get our hands on one.

 

 

 

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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