new Shand Oykel – in carbon!

about this Chinese carbon jobby.

being a Scottish brand, was that intentional?

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The Trek Stache Carbon is looking good, probably a whole lot cheaper as a whole bike too…

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Now we’re talking, bit slacker than the Bahookie, bit slacker still with a bouncy fork..

That does look nice.

Not so sure about the forks….bang a pike on there and we’re talking

Yes indeed.

Would be good with a Lefty.

When I saw the ad for the oykel because I knew of their Scottish origins I thought ‘brilliant – a British manufacturer investing in domestic carbon production’.
Hmmm. I feel shamd.

An imported badged up number will never be for me. I think it will dilute his brand. I make furniture using native grown timbers. Even when I’m very busy I’m never going to make a fortune, but I really care about the provenance of the things I make and I believe that my customers do as well. Shand makes terrific steel frames and I can’t see there’s any reason for them to paint up generic frames except to generate revenue. That’s fine and totally his decision, but rightly or wrongly to my mind it diminishes his other work.

Looks like the on-one version is on its way

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Sexy catalogue shot:

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Sexy catalogue shot:

But… but… it doesn’t have sexy paint 😆

I like it. Alot. It’s not my type of riding but I think it’s a looker and the paint is Bob on.

Crack on Shand. Sick of standard look shiiite. Marmite design products rock.

Maybe On-One could get Shand to paint theirs and put some spurious awesome from the UK stickers on there?

On-One’s actually looks pretty nice in 650+ form, and not a bad price (£1300 inc dropper):

On-One Rango

It’s also subtly different – straighter top tube, thinner chain stays etc… As is usual, no good info on geometry, full bike specification, frame only price etc.