mardi, février 20

VICTOIRE CYCLES – WOMEN SPORT ROAD FRAME-KIT

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

VICTOIRE CYCLES usually produce and show us quite some pretty nice completes bikes, but this time they are really surprising us with an handmade VICTOIRE CYCLES WOMEN SPORT ROAD FRAME-KIT (frame + fork + stem) in a fancy blue sky. Yes, the fork and the stem are also handmade by the French brand. Of course, as usual this frame-kit is made to measure and if we take in consideration all the parts that compose it, it is made of 3 different steel tubes : Tange Champion N1 for the frame, Reynolds blades and Columbus steerer for the fork....no one is jealous !

To start, this frame is a demand from a bike shop (V02 Cycles SISTERON) that was looking for a small road frame with a special women design. How small ? the rider is  usually riding a 650b bike...and she is about 4.86 foot tall (148cm) so it is quite difficult, no to say impossible, to find a so small frame with a women design on the market. An handmade frame is the right answer, and the experience of Cycles VICTOIRE has given birth to this elegant sport road frame.

As the rider is looking for a sportive road frame in 700cc, but with quite some comfort, VICTOIRE CYCLES choose to make it of TANGE Champion N1. TANGE has the particularity to produce some set of steel tubes, like the Champion N1, with small tubes and thin that really help to gain comfort. For example, main triangle tubes have a diameter of 28.6mm and seatstays / chainstays : 14mm. Also, but without loosing reactivity, the chain-stay are a little bit longer than usual. The top tube is slightly arch to bestrode the bike with less difficulty, an important point regarding the rider size.
The fork, handmade by VICTOIRE CYCLES, has bended blades from Reynolds to favour vibration absorption. The steerer tubes is 1"1/8 and made of Columbus.
There is a internal cable routing for the rear brake, for dérailleurs cables it goes through the down tubes. The bottom brackets is threaded - BSA68mm, the dérailleur hanger is replaceable.

The frame is now sent to shop. It is going to be set up as a sport road bike (non racing) with a Shimano Ultegra Triple Groupset. Outside of brand new 700cc wheels, most of the parts are from the previous bike.

CYCLES VICTOIRE website : http://www.victoire-cycles.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/victoire.cycles

CYCLES VICTOIRE WOMEN FRAME SPECS

  • Frame : Victoire , made to measure/
  • Tubes : Tange Champion n°1
  • Bottom bracket : Paragon BSC 68mm
  • Dropouts : Paragon
  • Fork : Reynolds blades , Columbus steerer, Pacenti fork crown
  • Headset : Vélo Orange
  • Stem : Victoire

ABOUT VICTOIRE CYCLES

VICTOIRE CYCLES is a French brand born in 2011 and based in Auvergne, started it s activity by designing and producing rear hub and sprocket for single-speed riders.....but then the activity evolved and now they are doing famous steel frame and complete bikes. All the frame VICTOIRE are handmade in France with steel tubes mainly from Columbus, Reynolds and Tange.

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier

cycles victoire cadre femme veloacier