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FRAMES
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MAKING
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The frame quality depends on the frame-maker's skills and
dexterity. Blowtorches are highly skilled brazers
best tools.
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Hand-made
alignment tables allow the positioning, the assembling and
the control of frames.
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The craftsman's traditional expertise is
combined with modern means.
Computer aided conception methods
offer preciseness.
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RACKS
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Racks
receive the same attention as frames. Tubes are bent on a
special machine of our conception and tube angles are then
controlled on alignment table. |
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POWDER-COATING
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ADVANTAGES:
The powder perfectly sticks to the frame.
Very good resistance to shocks.
Long-lasting.
No pollution (no solvent).
DISADVANTAGES:
The surface is less even than with liquid coating. There
may be some small imperfections (powder can not be controlled
as it melts during firing).
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To
guarantee a good result, two processes are first carried out:
- scouring and anti-corrosion protection baths,
- sand blasting, to ensure perfect paint adhesion, consists
in 'throwing up' small corundum grains at a very high speed
onto the frame to make it clean.
Made with powder colors, not with liquid colors.
We use a special spray gun which allows the powder to be attracted
onto the frame as if it were a magnet.
The frame is perfectly covered thanks to this method.
The frame is then put into a kiln to fire the powder.
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The different tubes are firstly brazed
with just a little spot on the frame for made-to-measure
models, or on a template for standard models. The whole
rack is then taken apart, full soldered, surfaced on the
alignment table and fixed again on the frame or the template
for a last check before it is powdered.
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HAND MADE WHEELS
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Wheels
are certainly the most suffering elements in a bike. All of
our wheels are hand-made.
Spokes are progressively tightened to ensure a more even tension.
As for spoke nuts, they are fixed with a small drop of nipple
stick.
Wheels are centered and then hand-pressured, 'tortured' once,
twice, three or four times if necessary, until they no longer
loose their shape under the constraints we place upon them.
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BAGS
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The raw materials we use are strictly selected,
nothing is left to chance. The resistance of leather, its
softness, its lengthening, its thickness are strictly controlled.
Parts are assembled by experienced hands according to the
laws of traditional saddlery.
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