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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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, [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] |
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