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 methods 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. A couple of weeks in the past, we shared some information about Wilde Bicycle Firm’s new 1″ threaded headset. Properly, the bike they used to mannequin the headset was their new customized Sugar Foot frameset constructed up right into a 650b “classical” gravel racer.
After seeing the Sugar Foot up shut and private, it was a straightforward selection for me to choose it as this 12 months’s MADE Better of Present award. I walked the present for 3 days, and actually struggled to make this powerful selection, nevertheless it was the straight high tube, skinny tubeset, the Pacenti fork crown, and the Richard Sachs-designed lugset that pushed the Sugar Foot forward of many others that had been in competition.
Lately, in a sea of generic full-suspension plastic bikes, overly fashioned 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 once you communicate 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 building, it might not be a motorbike for some. However, even in case you don’t take care of these attributes, you’ll be able to’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 gorgeous first gen Shimano XTR and using the White Industries rear hub, and SON entrance dynamo hub.
One other construct spotlight is the superbly 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 elements. Imron paint by D&D Cycles is completely good.
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 much 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’re reserving yours now. Supply ought 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 personal lovely Sugar Foot by hitting the hyperlink under.
WildeBikes.com
