Monday, October 29, 2007

Wow, it's been a long time since the last post on this blog, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been a lot happening. It's been a busy 'summer' of riding, designing and (I'm glad to say) selling bikes.

Firstly some news on the design side. The last post here was regarding the Gryphon prototypes. We've been testing those a lot and really enjoying the ride. The Ti fork I had made up is perhaps a little on the flexy side, hard braking and turning don't go well together. Have recently been riding it with a Pace carbon fork which is much more inspiring. Getting a nice steel fork together for these frames needs to happen before we go into production.

The main thing I've been working on though is the Peregrine and we now have the final drawings all ready to go. Finally worked out a good way to enable derailleur gears, hub gears, or SS while looking fairly neat in any configuration. Also have got a different fork together with a nice lugged crown. The first run of those along with more Swift SS frames should get here early in the new year.

Have also been working on a few other little projects, stay tuned for further details very shortly.
As I said, lots of frames going out the door lately, here are some pics of a few customers' builds.



Mike in Sweden

Mick in Yorkshire

Lynten in Singapore

Karsten in Germany

Erik in The Netherlands

Eric in France

Alex in Bristol

That's about it, all sorts of people from all over the globe - nice to see so many different builds out there, everyone giving their Singular their own flavour!

Sam