I make bikes

that looks super spesh man. awesome!!

great work that frame is lovely! some matching forks would polish it off nicely

The perfect headbadge;

+1!
I can only echo what everyone's been saying! :)

Nice story, I love it when a project takes over your life. I'm not sure about the selling the TV bit though

Nice work! Look forward to seeing more WIlkinson frames in the future :)

Wow, this is impressive. Well done. :)

well done, liking the colour and the logo too

excellent work! i remember you on the dunwich dynamo thinking that i've never seen a Wilkinson frame before. now i know why!

dibs

very very nice, congratulations!

This sort of endeavour really floats my boat. Great work.

The decals are lovely too - it's not quite Futura, is it? Similar though. Nice typography. Not an easy thing to get right.

Bewt

Fantastic! Looks very much the part. I imagine it must be pretty satisfying to be riding something you built. Well done.

i remember this bike at the dynamo. i caught my attention
congrats

good luck cosmanaut. I've seen this bike close up and it's good indeed.

i take my hat off to you
if i had the balls to do something like this i would be very proud
how did you start out ? buy a welder ? the course ? or the reading ?

If this takes off will you be looking to diversify? If so I suggest you should get into making racing blades but not just any old blades but the finest blades in the world. Oh, and call them Sword.
Just a thought.

I'll get my coat........

Wow. Well done cosmonaut. I'll be looking out for you on that.

Hey, I saw this bike (and owner) at lunchtime, in my office car park in Victoria - nice bike!

Nice bike. Where did you get the name decals?

very nice, congratulations.

Nice bike. I'm seriously impressed.

Are those rear forks shaped somehow? They look like they are flattened one way at the end and then flattened the other way in the middle, but that could be a trick of the lighting in the photo. If so, how did you manage that?

How did you decide on the frame geometry? Did you copy an existing bike which was Baby-Bear's-porridge, or did you work out your perfect geometry somehow and build this to suit you. Copying an existing frame would be easier, so I'd be interested which approach you took.

I've thought of giving one of the frame-building courses a go, but it'd never be anything like as fine as your bike. And then I would have frame-envy.

Has anybody tried one of those courses? If so, what was your frame like at the end? And do you still ride it?

I've thought of giving one of the frame-building courses a go, but it'd never be anything like as fine as your bike. And then I would have frame-envy.

with this kind of negativity, you will never build a nice frame :P

I've thought of giving one of the frame-building courses a go, but it'd never be anything like as fine as your bike. And then I would have frame-envy.

Has anybody tried one of those courses? If so, what was your frame like at the end? And do you still ride it?

Dave Yates makes damn sure you get a nice frame at the end of his course - the guy I was on the course with was much less confident than I was with a torch (and it really was just confidence - I'd never brazed before) and still got a nice bike out of it.

My course bike is my high days and holidays bike - did Dunwich on it not having ridden it for months and still arrived sans bruised arse or hands.