Swarf Curve Frame with Cane Creek inline shock (set to 150mm travel) and ceramic bearing headset. The lower handmade carbon chain retainer is included too.
Painted by Fat Creations in candy Blue with white pearlescent fleck.
Reynolds steel front and carbon rear (completely handmade)
Roughly a medium frame but with extended reach, similar to early forward geometry bikes
Would suit anyone between 5ft5 and 5ft11 (i'm 5ft8 on a good day!)



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445mm reach
425mm seat tube
337mm bb height (150mm fork)
65 deg head angle (150mm fork)
430mm chainstay
30.9 seat tube
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- Built by Adrian November 2014 and used in spurts ever since (either side of testing other bikes).
- Meticulously maintained, regular bush and bearing change - frame will come with new set all round
- 142x12 bolt through (just look at those dropouts!!)
- 44 mm head tube for all fork combos
- Paint is super thick and durable but there are quite a few paint chips to rear swingarm and around main pivot. 
Also some paint wear on bb shell and where hoses attach (all in pics). Please note, none of these are through the primer, Fat Creations paint system is done to last.
Adrian keeps all spares for these frames so that is never a problem (bushes, rods, bearings, dropouts etc)
These frames were over £2000 when new due to the hours of meticulous labour that went into making them.
With the paint chips and rub, I'm asking for a very reasonable £950.
Frame is in Bristol, viewing welcomed, can be brought to Dorset for the right deal.
Contact deets
mailto:wightcycles@gmail.com
07815034289

Alex's 27.5 Splatter Spline wins Pinkbikes reader poll , 'The Sexiest AM/FR/Enduro Hardtail of 2015'!

Alex had a really clear vision of what he wanted when he came to me to have a custom geometry Spline made, the frame turned out to be a winner and with his select build the bike is awesome. Here's his story of the journey of having a custom Swarf frame plus some detail of his final build (including an interesting ghetto pro-core system!). Words and Pictures by Alex Klimow

​The idea behind this bike was to take the fit of my previous bike i.e. the distance between the bars and the seat and exaggerate everything else, without going too far.
 
My previous big bike was a Ragley Bagger 288 on which I used a 70mm stem and 750mm bars. The seating position was generally alright, but the 70mm stem was inappropriate in my mind.
So I started looking around, 650b became a thing, I read a lot about Forward Geometry and what Chris Porter thinks about bicycle geometry and I didn't find anything that combined everything I now believed to be important.
A custom frame was the only solution to my 'problem'.
 
I contacted a few frame builders but wasn't thrilled with their responses and I kind of resigned. Then one day my good friend Franzi told me she was getting a steel full suspension frame built by a somewhat nerdy British bloke and that I should ask him. So I did.

The correspondence was everything I was hoping for. No immediate 'Yeah, I'll do it! Give me some money.', no 'Why would you want such a long reach?', no 'Fillet-brazing is for grandads! TIG welding is for men!' but a healthy discussion with countless emails* crunching numbers, discussing manufacturing techniques and evaluating subjectivities.
 
It took us a good four months to settle on the final geometry. January 2015 I think it was when I couldn't think of anything to be changed.
Compared to the Bagger I wanted the seat angle to be steeper, head angle slacker, bottom bracket lower and the whole bike to be longer. All using a 150mm fork and a 50mm stem.
The final geometry was as follows:
(sagged, as anything else doesn't really make sense on a hardtail)
For reference, I'm 1,77m tall.
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66° head angle
75.5° seat angle
460mm reach
430mm chainstay
430mm seat tube
305mm BB height
1184mm wheelbase
 




 
It worked out great and the craftsmanship is excellent. I was and still am over the moon.
Especially with the frame being painted by Fatcreation's Alistair McLean.
The inspiration for this paintwork was an early nineties Kuwahara and Geoff Gulevich's prototype Rocky Mountain DH bike from 2014, I think.