bikeplanet: GARRETH’S SINGLE FIXED BIKE www.fieldcycles.com Garreth’s bike is a really good e
bikeplanet: GARRETH’S SINGLE FIXED BIKE http://www.fieldcycles.com Garreth’s bike is a really good example of the unique contemporary steel bikes we love to build. He encouraged us to exercise our collective skill and imagination across the design, fabrication and paintwork of his frameset. He left us to create something bespoke to his needs, trusting that what he got back would be his go to bike for the streets of Bristol. We worked some unique features into this build; the most inventive is the top tube, starting life as a Reynolds oval Tandem boom tube, calling for some tricky mitering. The fillets were painstakingly filed and polished giving the frame seamless and sculpted tube junctions. At first glance looking more like a carbon frameset, but on closer inspection the lustre of the brushed stainless details confirm the frame’s steel heart. We shot this bike on the road that bisects the huge Forgemasters site. A Sheffield company in its third century, regarded as the oldest steel business in the world. They still remain at the forefront of casting and forging steel for heavy engineering… producing the heaviest castings on Earth up to 350 tonnes! We’re proud to play a lightweight part in Sheffield’s innovative steel working legacy. -- source link