Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Finally the Peregrine prototypes are here!


After a number of setbacks and unexpected delays, we took delivery of four frames and forks yesterday. There are a few things which already I can say will need changing for the production framesets, but overall I'm extremely pleased with how they've come together.


I built this one up quickly with a few bits I had getting around, and initial impressions are excellent. Quick and light feeling to the ride, but reassuringly stable. These will be extensively tested over the summer by a few eager volunteers in a number of guises- geared road tourer, doublespeed rambler, we might even try a Shimano Alfine group -more reports to come...


The beautiful solid silver Peregrine headbadge with thanks to Jen Green at headbadges.com (silver Swift headbaadges are also now available).


We've had a number of pics come in of some customers' bikes over the past couple of weeks. All singlespeeds, but some quite different set-ups.


This is Moose enjoying his new build at McMoab in Kirroughtree, Scotland.



This is from Frank in the Netherlands - a very familar setup!



I really like this build from Lars in Sweden, though I fear I may like his whiskey collection even more ;-)