GOBLIN BIKES – BESPOKE WITH TANGE STEEL TUBES

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GOBLIN BIKES is a French brand that design light and playful sportive bikes whatever they are Road - Gravel bikes or even MTB. All the frame are unique piece made to measure to fit to your body and your needs. The name GOBLIN come from the nickname given to its owner in relatives to its size, but it also define the small and legendary creature : the brand is, by experience, skilled in designing complete bikes for small riders.

GOBLIN BIKES is born in the 90's and owned by Jean Christophe CHARRIER. The first idea behind GOBLIN BIKES was to develop and built bikes for personal use. Following the success from a first model GB01 shown in public, a second personal bike is borned and the brand GOBLIN BIKES is officially launched. It is important to write some key words about the brand philosophy : TIG welded, Handmade in France, Tange Steel tubes, Disc brakes, Sportive & Comfortable to ride, versatile machine...

The brand is the achievement of how its designer imagines steel bikes in term of geometry and how they should ride....he has precise idea of how a GOBLIN BIKES must be.
It is obvious, on www.veloacier.com, that they are made of steel tubes...and here GOLBIN mainly uses TANGE Prestige Japan Steel tubes. Those high-end steel tubes are Double butted and available under many type of tubes : seat tube, seat stay, chain stay...allowing to weld a complete frame from this prestigious set. GOBLIN BIKES philosophy is to design bikes for specific practices where steel is at its best.

Those bikes are thought for a sportive uses, yet we do not speak about performance, for what steel is certainly the best providing comfort and efficiency.... The willing is to propose light sportive machines, playful and versatile. They are only designed for disk brakes...but if you really like the philosophy of the brand but you definitely prefer regular rim brakes, give a call to the team...i am sure they will be open to handcraft an exclusive Goblin Bikes with cantilever.

The bikes are designed for tall and small riders in term of geometry, rides feeling but also..tubes diameter and thickness. When global bikes brand uses the same thickness and tube diameter either for small than tall riders,  small riders have to daily fight riding with bikes adapted firstly for tall riders with thick and strong tubes. The french handcrafter has a different approach allowing him to perfectly fit each riders. GOBLIN BIKES is using different and adapted steel tubes depending if you are a tall riders or a small riders. To give you a global idea, if you are tall, the frame is built with large diameter and thick tubes bringing rigidity to give back power.

For a small rider, GOBLIN is using thin steel tubes with a real small diameter. The target, behind the wish to weld small tubes, is to not penalized riders by neutralizing the small size in order to offer a really light and reactive machine. Indeed, all components like handlebar, stem, saddle....and crankarm lenght (like 165mm lenght) are adapted to fit your measurement. GOBLIN BIKES is owned by a small rider...so you can guess that he can speak about and design small bikes by experience !
For the story...all the first customers have ordered S size...really happy to see a brand proposing frame and complete bikes really thought and developed for small riders. By using small Tange Prestige Japan steel tubes, the bike looks elegant, pared down but also nice regarding the small size of the frame.

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GOBLIN BIKES – THE GBO2

To go a further about the GBS02 shows in pictures, this is the current personal bikes of Jean Christophe, owner of the brand who has a small size. The frame is completely made of Tange Prestige Japan steel tube likewise for chainstays and seatstays. Like says upper,  this is one of the advantage of the Prestige Japan, it is proposed under various type of tubes and you can build a complete bikes 100% made of this set of tybes. The frame as the particularity to have an headtube that has been machined a second time to gain extra grams without compromising the strength.

For a small rider, small frame : 400mm seattube with small diameter and pretty light and thin Prestige Japan Tange Steel Tubes. Chainstay lenght are short, 410mm long to keep the machine punchy, the headtube angle is 72° with a 45,1mm offset : data that you commonly find on sports touring bikes providing a reactive handling but predictable especially if you plan to ride your bike in bikepacking mode or with a small bag at the front. And little "privilege" of the master, it has been freshly repaint with new decals (named GB03) and a new set-up with a road handlebar instead of a flat one.

The bike is set up with a personalized 2x10 speed drivetrain that really fits the needs of its rider : the crank is from Race Face Moutain bike range (Model SIXC BCD104/64) with 165mm crankarm set up with Stronglight 42/27 rings ! It is coupled to an 11/32 cassette. This choice is a wish from Jean-Christophe to have a drivetrain perfectly adapted to its morphology and way of riding. Other parts are a SRAM Red Read dérailleur controlled with SRAM RIVAL shifters. Brakes are mechanical TRP Spyre with real floating rotors (patented) developed by ZENO bike Components.
To handle the bike, he is using an handlebar ( Energy Compact 420mm) and a short (70mm) MTB stem from FSA. For the seat : Fizik Cyrano & Arione..high end models !

About wheels, he is riding with Vision Trimax 30 Disc  (in replacement of its previous Metron) : they are offering less windage due to their lower profile and more comfort than the previous set-up. Tires are Continental 4Season in 25mm, a size that perfectly fit and is recommended on those wide rims.

Oh you probably noticed the extra large flat pedals...due to a small handicap on the right legs...this set-up combine with Five Ten shoes offers him an incredible grip close to what you can feel with "SPD-SL" pedals.

GOBLIN BIKES are available worldwide, please contact the team for any project, they will take the time to answer your question and design your bike step by step and of course in your favourite colour. Bikes are designed and produced in France from the excellent Tange Steel Tubes. GOBLIN BIKES are sold worldwide, please contact them for a quotation of your project in your currency and to know all shipment details.

GOBLIN BIKES website : http://www.jaycees.fr/goblinbikes/goblinbikes.html
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