Threads are chased, shells faced
Every frame leaves with its bottom bracket shell faced and every thread chased, including the ones the components will never touch. An unchased thread is a fault, not a saving.
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Shop standards
The decisions we have stopped debating. Each one costs us a little money and saves you a lot of grief. Published so you can disagree with us in advance.
Alignment confirmed twice
Once after brazing, once after paint. Paint can pull a frame a tenth of a degree and we refuse to let a colour do that unnoticed.
External routing, full housings
Full-length outer cables from lever to stop, on every model, on purpose. They shift better in winter and can be serviced anywhere by anyone.
BSA threaded bottom brackets
We are a threaded shop. Press-fit solved a manufacturing problem we do not have and created a creaking problem we refuse to import.
27.2 seatposts
A standard so good it has survived every attempt to replace it. Compliance you can tune with a post, repair with a $40 part.
Enamel over primer over phosphate
The paint system has three layers and no shortcuts. A chip touches up with a brush; a respray, decades off, goes down to bare steel without surprises.
The price of conviction
Some of these standards make frames heavier by grams and slower to build by hours. We think a bicycle should outlive its marketing, and every line above is written in that spirit. This page belongs to a fictional workshop and exists to demonstrate how a shop might state its principles plainly.