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Notes from the bench
Occasional writing on steel, paint and the strange endurance of the hand-built bicycle. Roughly one piece a season, whenever something on the bench deserves sentences.
In defence of the queue
Our order book runs six months deep and we are proud of it. An argument for waiting, and against the factories that taught us to expect otherwise.
Read →Why steel still wins
Everyone asks why we keep working with steel tubes when the fairing age arrived years ago. Here is the honest answer, in three parts.
Read →The anatomy of a lug
A lug is not decoration. It is a socket, a heat sink and a signature all at once. A walk through the joint we make four hundred times a year.
Read →No older posts. The journal restarts each redesign, and this redesign is new. The archive lives on paper in the shop office, where it belongs.