Martin's first XACD frame – now running as a fully rigid singlespeed.
Martin recently got in touch with me to let me know about an XACD frame that he had made a little while ago and about his plans to have ‘frame 2.0′ produced. I asked him about what he had [...] 
Following another tip off I found out about bespoke Spanish designers Amaro. They specialised in making unique frames to order, tailoring them to match customers requirements. They’ve now decided to bring their fabrication ‘in house’ and no longer get frames made by XACD, but I liked their variety of designs so much that I couldn’t resist [...] 
Olivier’s tip-offs never end, this time he pointed me towards a Picasa album that documented Dominique Charbonnel’s individual frame designs from napkin sketch to reality. I’ve tried to get in touch with the man himself but with no luck yet, so this is more of a slide show than a normal gallery item! From [...] 
Andy contacted me the other month as he’d been exchanging emails with Porter for a little while and just wanted a second opinion on the 29′er frame that he was looking to have built. Sadly I wasn’t a huge amount of help as I’ve not much experience of big wheel frames! Luckily Andy was [...] 
Thanks to Olivier for yet another tip off. This time it was Spanish brand Jerónimo Cycles that caught his attention, and I can see why! Posting on a bike forum they were showing off a full suspension design that looked pretty tidy, it’s unusual to see someone make a titanium full suss, so I thought I’d find [...] 
Sunil got in touch recently to let me know about the frame that he had made to complete the Tour D’Afrique, an 11,704 Km expedition tour across Africa, going all the way from Cairo to Cape Town! (You can read all about it on his blog: http://geekonabicycle.co.uk/). He enlisted the services of Mosquito Bikes [...] 
I’ve found another brand having frames made by XACD – and just to be different they’re not French this time! Kingdom Bike Project are a European company with a head office based in the UK. They’ve been going since late 2009 and were started up by a group of bike enthusiasts who fancied [...] 
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 [...] |
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