Spanner TiBride – the first 'prototype' Have you ever thought – “Hey, all these UK micro bike brands are just some bloke in a shed ordering frames from China and then making up some marketing bull to flog em”? Well I did too, and just for a laugh I thought that if they [...] 
I know a few of you have been interested to see how Dave’s order with Titan Product ended up. As you might remember we saw the frame a few months ago: http://www.spanner.org.uk/2012/02/gallery-introducing-titan-product-daves-custom-titanium-audax-frame/ …and now Dave’s been able to get it built up! Looking very smart – Dave's Titan Product frame brought to life [...] 
Michael contacted me before Christmas as he had a few interesting ideas he wanted to try out on a custom XACD build, things like removing the chainstay bridge and mounting the rear brake ‘inboard’. I thought the results would be rather interesting – and they are! I’ll let him take up the story… I [...] 
Jenny from Waltly Titanium got in touch with me the other day to introduce themselves – I guess I shouldn’t be surprised as there must be loads of these little companies around, but you do wonder where all their customers come from? (OK, now I’m starting to answer my own questions, taking a closer [...] 
Oranges are not the only fruit – it turns out there’s more than just one enterprising Chinese company that will deal with you directly if you’re after a custom titanium frame; introducing Titan Product.
Titanium audax frame found roaming in the wild, carefully trapped and tamed by Titan.
Dave got in touch with [...] 
You might remember Adrian’s radical prototype from a few months ago, where he set out to build a 29′er with the shortest possible chainstays – well, he’s back again with V2! Lighter, slimmer and stiffer; Adrian learnt a lot from his first frame and tweaked his design for 'V2' Adrian caught the frame design [...] 
I thought the other day that we’d not caught up with our favorite French microbrands recently – so here we are. Even if their frames might not be to your taste there are often examples of finishes and other options that you might not have considered before.
H-Bicycles – Horton First off let’s check out [...] 
Johnny contacted me back in April as he was looking for something a bit different and had approached XACD for a Newsboy style road frame. His order didn’t go quite as smoothly as some so I thought it would be a good one to share with the rest of you. Looking for something [...] |
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