Hi to all!
Finally managed to log in on weightweenies after some time. Busy as always
with different projects, working hard on some great custom projects and some new products. We will put our shoes for sale this month, finally. Here some photos of a size 44. We will produce them in sizes 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45. And then see how to continue in the future. Black only.
Great photos by my friend D.Krevs:
Just out of the mould, with moulded rubber:
Size 44:
Weight of size 44 is cca 160g, for smaller sizes it will be less. Waiting for other sizes to get them from our partner with which we produce those shoes, all handmade in Slovenia. In the second half of Jan we should have some stock, and then we will give our best to always have some stock if anyone will be interested. Price for the pair is 350eur shipped worldwide. For any questions etc. I'm here or you can drop us an email and it will be answered as soon as possible
. Recently it took a bit longer to answer because our move, a lot of work, also a few days of bad health,..but somehow getting on the good way back after a few a bit more stressfull weeks.
I decided to share more of our R&D with you, also if there will be projects that might not hit production, but to show you how much work is behind some projects.
We are slowly adding new products into production. It's quite a challange, because one pair of hands can't do all the work, and I have that luck that I work with great people, all of them with great love for cycling. But it's still quite complicated to put new parts alive.
We also had to change a bit our point of view. Custom products are great for a one-man-band company. When I worked alone it was a different experience than now. We are a team of 4 at this moment, and we realized that we will have to produce adjustable parts, which can be made in stock, mostly to reduce the waiting time and to keep some control inside the company. So that is why we decided to keep only our framesets and our well known integrated seatpost/saddle combos as a custom product made on request.
All future products will be made similar as our saddles with saddle rails. With that I have in mind products that allow adjustment, but still keep the weight low. We will soon put on the market our seatpost (with the carbon clamp that can be adjusted from 0 to 15mm offset), and now we are working also on our carbon stems and handlebars!
We did present our integrated handlebar, but unfortunately decided that we won't produce it in that shape, but rather as a separate set. Why? The position of the handlebar is for each customer specific, there are diffrerent headtube angles, different widths, stem length etc.,...and it would all take too long to put all those details into one custom product as the integrated handlebar, and it needs to be adjusted because the different handlebar positions. So we made all the testing for the stem and handlebar, and decided to develop our own parts, which are in development and should be ready this summer.
Somethig with only 120mm drop and 70mm reach. As a classy oval/round and also an aero option (both with the same drops). Here just a 3D print during the development of the "classy" handlebar:
Later I will show you more...also the stem, which will be full carbon. As the seatpost also the stem is carbon only, the only metal parts are the bolts. We will present all those parts together once everything is prepared, in a few months.
Here another photo of the seatpost prototype, we already have the moulds for it and produced a few carbon seatposts:
Here is an example to show you how the upper cradle/clamp looks like just out of the mould:
I will show more soon!