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Not rude at all, all fully designed in house down to boss placement, tube profiles/bends etc and even a custom stem for the last one, but yeah, frame build is outsourced as we don't have tooling, TIG or experience for building in Ti. Finishing and bike build all done by us after. Kinda like Burls but not in the Russian factory, understand going with them as there's plenty of good rep behind them, but we've got to start somewhere so figured I'd mention it as an option. I think we've settled on fallen cycles as a brand name, not because I've fallen off so many.
Without sounding rude, do you just outsource to Waltly? Definitely another to add to this list, do you have a brand name for it? Although, as this is my Dads sort of 'bike for life' I imagine he'll want to go with a well known, proven name. All the talk about people doing 10s of thousands of Km on Burls frame is an excellent selling point