 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 could do it [...]  The keen French chaps at Skye have been tinkering around with full suspension options – here they’ve got XACD to make a rather good copy of a Yeti 575 front end in titanium. It’s a prototype at the moment but Skyde are looking to offer a service to people who already have a full suspension bike [...]  Like most people I was nervous about dealing with a company on the other side of the world. What would happen if they sent me something that wasn’t what I asked for – or what would happen if something broke? As I’ve mentioned before dealing with XACD is a risk so you need to be aware [...]  Olivier mentioned to me that he’d seen another chap over on the French forums getting an XACD frame made and put me in touch with him. This is Jean-François’ singlespeeded hardcore hardtail: Jean-François singlespeed hardtail XACD frame. I asked Jean-François what the thinking was behind his frame: I have a Yeti 575 which was perfect in the Midi-Pyrénées, [...] 
Oooh, looky over here, Pipedream cycles are doing a titanium offering for a very reasonable £699. Check out the finish on their Facebook page too, who do we know that can offer polished logo’s on a sand blast frame or CNC’d head tube engraving as options? It could be an XACD made frame, and even [...]  Someone at Lynskey draws the short straw and has to Fully Polish a frame – you end up with a mirrored 'chrome' look. The options for finishing off a titanium frame can be a little confusing – particularly as different people can call them different things. Let’s have a go at sorting out what [...]  Olivier got in touch with me from Switzerland a little while back saying he was having a frame made by XACD. He’d been inspired by the number of French companies who also have frames made there (if you’ve done your research you might notice his frame is similar to the HBicycles ‘FlexTi’ model). After sweating over [...]  <edit> We’ve now heard the news that Merlin weren’t able to offer Cotic any manufacturing slots so they’ve gone off to Lynskey instead! Lynskey are just dominating the titanium frame market currently, I just hope each brand is able to put it’s own spin on things so we don’t end up with more of the same. The [...] |
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