The Workshop and us

 
 

The workshop

We are based in Samoëns, a traditional village in the mountains of Haute-Savoie.

The first ride on your unique, hand made, custom bike will be special.

You can come and pick your bike up from our workshop.

Our workshop is on the edge of the forest.

Near the start of the mythical Col de Joux Plane road climb.

At the bottom of 1,000 vertical metres of singletrack heaven.

What will you choose for your first ride?

Photo by Nicolas Joly. Fillet brazing in the workshop

Alexander Plaisted

I have been building custom frames since 2016.

Some days you wonder if it is worth it.  Framebuilding is hard work and the pay is shocking.  And it’s bloody cold in the winter.

But then you remember why.

Because of that dream.  The one that refused to die.

We dreamed of the mountains.  Then dreamed some more.  And then finally we ran.

We chose to drop out of corporate life in return for bloody hands and scraped knees.

For freedom from screens and spreadsheets. For the joy of creating beautiful functional machines.

For the dream of cold winters buried in snow, summers riding through clouds of dust and the rest of the year pedalling up and down big hills. 

For a knackered old shed in the woods up a mountain.

It is definitely worth it.