01
Measuring
Two hours with you and the bike you ride now. We measure, we film you pedalling, and we draw the geometry in front of you.
Week 1
Massarelos, Porto · since 2013
Fifty frames a year.
Hand-brazed steel, measured for whoever is going to ride it. We do not make sizes, we make yours.
Tube by tube
Thirty-two hours at the bench. Most of them filing.
A well-made steel frame lasts forty years. Our oldest is twelve and still goes out every Sunday. If one ever breaks, we braze it again.
How it is made
Four stages, nine weeks .
None of it is fast and none of it is meant to be. You see all of it, because every stage is photographed and sent: there are no surprises at the end.
02
Cut and mitre
Columbus tubing cut by hand and mitred until the gap disappears. It is the longest stage and it decides everything after it.
Weeks 2–4
03
Brazing
Brass at six hundred and twenty degrees, joint by joint, with the frame back on the alignment table between each one. Then days of filing.
Weeks 5–7
04
Paint
Stripped, primed, two coats and a lacquer. You choose the colour in week six, standing over the finished frame.
Weeks 8–9
In numbers
Small on purpose .
There are two of us. We are not going to grow, because the only way to make more frames is to make them worse.
50
Frames a year
32
Hours at the bench
9
Weeks to wait
12
Years open
Standard specification
Tubing Columbus Spirit or Life
Joints Brass-brazed, no lugs
Bottom bracket T47 threaded
Seatpost 27.2 mm
Tyre clearance Up to 35 mm with guards
Cable routing External, clipped
Finish Two coats, satin lacquer
Price, frameset €2,850
Ordering
The list opens twice a year .
January and July, twenty-five frames at a time. Leave an email and we will tell you a week before it opens. We send nothing else.
Current list
17 of 25 places
One email every six months. Nothing else.
This is a demonstration. Nothing is sent anywhere.
You are on it.
We will write a week before the list opens.
This is a demonstration. Nothing is sent anywhere.
