Custom titanium frames · Designed in Kirkland, WA
Six finishes.
One of them is yours.
Titanium frames drawn to your fit data and finished in one of six colorways — transparent color laid over metal polished to a mirror, with no metallic pigment in it at all. Everything you see moving in the light is the titanium underneath. The paint is the one thing I don't negotiate; the drivetrain, wheels, cockpit and every gram of the rest is yours to choose. Then you come and collect it, I set your position, and you ride it home.
Orders open December 1, 2026. Send your brief before then and I'll read it now — you're in the queue for the first build slots, and nothing is charged until we've talked.
01 — the colorways
Every image here is a render. The first frames are being built now, and these are replaced with photographs the day they land. Which is exactly why I will post you painted titanium samples of the colorways you are weighing up, in a box that comes back — you pay the return postage and nothing else. Don't buy a finish off a screen. I wouldn't.
02 — what's fixed, what isn't
Paint is fixed
Paint is the one thing that isn't open. There are six colorways and no custom finishes, because each one is a transparent color system validated on polished titanium coupons before it ever touches a frame — a one-off would be a first attempt, and I don't sell first attempts. Everything else on the bike is yours to choose.
Everything else isn't
Six finishes, and effectively no limit on anything else. Any groupset, any wheels, any cockpit, ultra-light where you want it, and finishing kit matched to the paint. If it can reasonably be sourced and it belongs on the bike, we will build it that way.
The full component story03 — designed here, made there, built here
It says “designed in the Pacific Northwest” on the chainstay, and that's the accurate word.
Designed in the Pacific Northwest, fabricated and finished in China by a specialist titanium framebuilder, built up and handed over here in Kirkland.
The frames are welded and finished in China, by a titanium framebuilder who does this — 3Al/2.5V tube, back-purged TIG, transparent color over a mirror polish — better than anyone I could hire within a thousand miles of here. That they also do it for less is why the price is what it is rather than double.
The drawing, the geometry, your fit, the tube schedule, the finish spec and the color approval are mine. When the frame lands in Kirkland I build the bike, set your position, and hand it to you. Next year, when something needs adjusting, I'm twenty minutes away.
— Dimitri Blondeel, Kirkland, WA
How it's made, in detailDrawn to you
Geometry, tube schedule and clearances engineered from a real fitter's numbers. Nothing is released to the builder until you've approved the drawing.
Finished properly
Mirror polish, masked logos in bare titanium, a transparent bonding layer, then transparent color. No opaque primer, no flake, no shortcuts.
Built and handed over here
About a week in Kirkland to turn the frame into a bicycle, then you collect it in person and I set your position before you leave.
04 — the process
Pick a colorway
Six finishes. This is the one decision that is genuinely fixed, so it is worth taking your time over — go and look at all six before you choose.
Fit data
A frame drawn to your numbers is the entire point, so we start from real ones. Send a fit report from a qualified fitter — or tell us you don't have one and we'll point you at a fitter near you before anything else happens.
Riding style and specs
A conversation, not a form. How you actually ride — randonneur, racy, all-road, gravel, or an honest mix — and then the components: drivetrain, wheels, cockpit, finishing kit, and how far you want to take the weight.
Design finalization
Geometry drawn to your fit, tube schedule and butting engineered for your load case, clearances checked against the tires you intend to run, and every component confirmed. Nothing is released to the builder until the whole drawing is dimensioned and you have approved it — no fabrication starts on a to-be-decided.
Fabrication and finishing
Tubes cut and mitred for full-contact joints, TIG welded under full inert-gas coverage with an internal back-purge, aligned, then polished to a mirror, masked, and coated in your colorway. This happens at our framebuilder in China — the people who do this work best — to the drawing you approved.
Build-up in Kirkland
The frame lands here and we build the bike. Components have been sourced in parallel and are waiting, so this is assembly rather than another wait: headset and BB pressed and faced, routing run, wheels trued and tensioned, drivetrain indexed, brakes bled and bedded, everything torqued to spec and test-ridden.
Local pickup
You come and get it. We set your position from the same fit data the frame was drawn to, ride it with you, and adjust on the spot. You leave on a bike that is already dialed in.
Design finalization takes about two weeks. Frame fabrication and finishing take up to twelve weeks after that, then about a week here to build the bike up once the frame lands. You know that now, so week nine is not a surprise. A frame drawn and finished the way this one is takes the time it takes.
Drawn · Built · Yours