Colorway 04 of 06
Ardenne
Built for wet roads and dark trees.
Named for the forest the spring classics climb through, and it looks like it. British racing green taken several layers deeper: in flat Pacific Northwest light it reads nearly black, and the moment the sun is out it is unmistakably green.
The one that looks most at home here. It disappears into a wet fir stand and then doesn't.
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.
Up close
Signature
The 37 mm head-tube mark, masked and polished back to bare titanium. Not a decal — the metal of the frame itself, showing through.
Identity
The 180 mm script on the down tube, masked before color and left as bare polished titanium. The clear coat runs over both, so it sits perfectly flush — nothing on the surface to lift or wear.
The color
Transparent color over polished metal, with no metallic or pearl pigment in it at all. Everything moving in the light is the titanium underneath — the tube reads near-black in shade and opens up in the sun.
Finish process
Mirror-polished titanium is masked, sealed with a transparent bonding layer, layered with translucent color, and clear-finished to reveal the shimmer beneath.
Pure form
Raw carbon at the fork, where the weight matters. Color where the eye goes.
This finish, or one of the other five.
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.
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.
What you can change