This has been many months in the formulating. The making was relatively short and I picked it up yesterday. I've had loads of bikes over the years, including Sevens, but this, to me, is at a different level. Tom is great to work with and is really pushing the boundaries of design in my view with his use of 3D printing techniques.
Beast Components wheels on DT Swiss 240s
Panaracer Gravelking SK + 47mm
SRAM Red AXS shifters, brakes, rotors
XX1 rear mech/cassette
Redshift Sports Kitchen Sink bars
Specialized Toupe saddle
Everything else is Sturdy Cycles.
I can't wait for less work and better weather.
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The Sturdy process and bikes it produces are amazing. Very jealous, lovely looking bike. Interested to hear whether you can tell that the frame is structured for your weight or if it’s relatively indecipherable from other high end framesets.
That's very nice.
I'm mean this in a positive way but it looks like a std ti bike in soft focus.
The frame aesthetic ticks a lot my retro nostalgia boxes of cast section frames and then blurring into the Cannonade era smoothed weld frames.
Are the frame mounted "piercings" for hard mounting a frame bag or similar?
We need more photos!
That's super cool.
The finish on the 3D parts where they meet the tubes reminds me of refurbished classic car bits. Where the original clean casting and machining has rusted and pitted, but then been cleaned up and repainted but you're still left with this smooth but pitted surface.
ooh, how does that seatpost get clamped then?
I was wondering that, thought perhapse expanding wedge like a quill stem, but then one of the photos on Instagram shows a dropper so it can't be that.
Part of me now wants to go take a hacksaw to the fixie and try out the expanding wedge idea.
It does look smooth. 🙂
Not sure I like the aesthetics of the dropped chainstays but I assume you get mega tyre clearance with them?
Interesting article about them in Cyclist magazine.
Not a fan of the dropped chainstay look personally, but it looks a fantastic machine.
Oooooo 🥰
Assume that’s a Sturdy crank? Do you know if they sell them independently of builds?
Very nice !!
Hi all - I'll be able to add more detailed shots in a couple of days.
@sheck - yes, it's a Sturdy ti crank. I don't know if Tom sells them separately
that looks very nice 👍
never heard of sturdy cycles before so just looked at their site.
lovely looking bikes and just down the road from where i live (devizes,frome about 20 miles away).
the only downside is lack of funds on my part. (love the road bike he makes,just about £8000 short of the cash lol)
tbh all the bikes look lovely he makes.
That is everything that the new Cotic ti gravel bike someone posted the other week is not.
I were right about that saddle being too high 😉
Smooth looking bike tho, even if not my cup of Ti
Nice, not sure if it's my sort of thing but that's not really an issue!
I couldn't push that big a chainring around near me either, what size is it?
howarthp, I have one of those too....amazing bikes. I've had mine a year now, and it just seems to get better and better every ride somehow 🙂 Tom is a bona fide genius, as well as a genuinely decent bloke.
That is everything that the new Cotic ti gravel bike someone posted the other week is not.
Hadn’t seen that - just looked and I have to agree, aesthetically it’s awful.
Not a fan of the dropped chainstay look personally
Me neither - is there a functional reason for them?
I can't think of anyone making more impressive custom bikes at the moment.
Not a fan of the dropped chainstay look personally
Me neither – is there a functional reason for them?
Provides clearance for bigger tyres and shorter stays.