Christiaan

Recently I chatted with Danny of GOSFORTH | Steel Road Bike Frames about building a stainless bike ready for belt drive. The idea being to create, what for me would be, the perfect urban bike: very low maintenance, corrosion resistant, beautiful and no grease to get on my clothes (frustratingly absent from the current market place).

He's really interested but after talking to his suppliers he would need to order ten of them. If you're interested please let me know and perhaps we can take it further.

Spec would look something like this:

Price (frameset): In the region of £1000-£1500
Frameset: 953 stainless steel butted frame + stainless steel raked forks
Geometry: Similar to Gosforth Reynolds 953 | GOSFORTH
Dropouts: Stainless vertical sliding with integral frame splitter (Paragon maybe)
Bottom bracket: standard
Braze-ons for front/rear mudguard/racks (no other braze-ons)

And, personally, I'd be planning to fit out as follows:

Drive: CDX Gates Carbon Drive Belt System
Rear hub: SRAM Automatic internal hub 2-speed
Front hub: Sturmey Archer drum brake
Tyres: Tannus solid tyres
Rims: Velocity Aero
Cranks: maybe Charge Rotisserie or Genetic Tibia Track Cranks

P.S. I wanted to post this in the Group Buy forum but I don't have access.

GeoKrpan

Thanks for posting.

fietsbob

So, who is the prospective builder? What do you know about them?

Gosforth Cycle Co.
Old Glassworks,
Stepney Bank,
Newcastle Upon Tyne,
United Kingdom.

( wrong side of 'the Pond' for USA, + £>$ exchange rate loss)

Christiaan

The bikes are built in Taiwan using the same builders as some large bike company (I'm guessing Giant).

Here's the warranty for his current lineup:
"10 YEAR WARRANTY

We only sell titanium and stainless steel bike frames and components, which means they could last a lifetime. We'll guarantee all our stainless steel and titanium products from failure in normal use for 10 years from purchase."

fietsbob

Maxway TW is another , steel , big rooms full of people welding& brazing .. You could contract with them MAXWAY Cycles Co., Ltd.