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Wood, well, geometry should be rider based on a custom bike.
There are some geometry norms set by the EU, there's a pdf from the German standards that sets some parameters, google it and you'll know more than you ever wanted to about handlbars, cranks, wheels and frames.
Most bicycle designs fall well within that.
There are also tests, to ensure the integrity of a frame.
But the best test of any bicycle, is 15 years hard use.
Here we've been building since 1949, we've built for a lot of brands, being a contract builder for brands in Italy, Austria, Uk, Belgium, Germany and The US, brands like Nilor, Schauff,Viner, Capo, Viscount, Benotto, Sloughi, Guerciotti, and heaps more.
I still do contract work for a handful of niche brands, in Italy, Germany and the Uk, can't say whom, obviously.
Production is not what it was, all that contract work went to Taiwan, then China,
so we've gone back to building bespoke frames.
This Revanche brand is my personal take on frames.