I’ve a really sturdy love for lugged and brazed metal bicycle frames. Together with a deep respect for the body builders who use these strategies when creating their ridable artwork.
At this 12 months’s MADE Present, I got down to discover a bicycle or bicycle product to be awarded with my very personal model of the Better of Present. Just a few weeks in the past, we shared some information about Wilde Bicycle Firm’s new 1″ threaded headset. Nicely, the bike they used to mannequin the headset was their new customized Sugar Foot frameset constructed up right into a 650b “classical” gravel racer.
I walked the present for 3 days and actually struggled to make this robust selection. However, as soon as I noticed the Sugar Foot up shut and private, it was a simple selection for me to choose it as this 12 months’s MADE Better of Present award. It was the straight high tube, skinny tubeset, the Pacenti fork crown, and the Richard Sachs-designed lug set that pushed the Sugar Foot forward of many others that had been in competition.
Today, in a sea of semi-generic full-suspension bikes, overly shaped and formed tubes, it was refreshing to see so many superb metal, and titanium bikes with conventional and basic traces at this present.
Jeffrey Frane is a real lover of the bicycle and its surrounding tradition. You possibly can inform whenever you converse with him… it’s contagious and intoxicating. Because the founder and head honcho for All-Metropolis Cycles for the primary 11 years they had been round, he is aware of a factor or two about designing and constructing bicycles. To not point out supporting the biking neighborhood as a complete.
One factor Jeffrey likes to say is that Wilde Bicycle Co. is “a love letter to biking”. I imagine this to be true. I additionally imagine that the Sugar Foot may nicely be that very thought manifested.
Let’s have a look.
As talked about earlier, the Wilde Sugar Foot combines timeless aesthetics with fashionable geometry and pace. Combining rim brakes and a body with lug development, it is probably not a motorbike for some. However, even for those who don’t take care of these attributes, you may’t deny it’s sheer magnificence.
You possibly can see Jeffrey’s ardour for the bicycle within the construct for the present pattern together with using the attractive first gen Shimano XTR and using the White Industries rear hub, and SON entrance dynamo hub.
One other construct spotlight is the peerlessly color-matched Sinewave Beacon 2 entrance dynamo mild and fillet brazed metal stem.
After which to push this lovely bike over the sting, there’s the Richard Sachs-designed lug set, the Pacenti fork crown, Columbus tubing, and Paragon Machine Works body components. Imron paint by D&D Cycles is completely excellent.
You should buy one in every of these framesets for your self, as Wilde is making 10 of those this Winter. The paint shall be just like the present bike. The sizes that shall be accessible are high tube efficient lengths of 54, 56,58, and 60mm.
Framesets will retail for $3900. By placing in an order, you might be reserving yours now. Supply needs to be in March / April 2025
FRAME
- Three units of bottle bosses
- Inside rear brake cable routing
- Fender mounts
- Rack mounts
- Clearance for as much as 650b x 2.2″ tires
- 132.5 rear spacing
STEEL FORK
- Fender mounts
- Mid-blade rack mount
- Inside dynamo routing
- Tire clearance 650b x 2.4″ tire
Order your individual lovely Sugar Foot by hitting the hyperlink beneath.
