Inside Fairlight Cycles - Frame Preparation

Before we ship a frameset, or build a bike, we fully ream, face, tap all threads and faces. Our production team treat each and every build as if it was their own. 'Care' is a word we talk about a lot in this business. From design through to finished products on the shelves, we care deeply about everything we do. It feels good sending products out into the world knowing that we've tried to do our best work at every stage of the process.

Here is our production manager Janos preparing a Strael 3.0 Putty frameset, before we ship it to its new owner.

Short video originally made for our Instagram page.

[stringfretless]

I have no idea why these videos are so much fun to watch, but they are. Wonderful.

[daniloum]

Happiest day of my life seeing that box delivered to my front door.

[silentandproud]

That is agile! Asked the team at Fairlight on Friday about this specific process. Now they posted a video. Must be a good company to work for too. Chapeau!

[hh]

I just finished building up my first bike which is a Strael - it is clearly well built, everything just slotted together. The frame preparation made it easy to put together. I am very pleased. I look forward to many long distance adventures :).

[gerritwanderer]

Can't fait for my frameset to arrive in November. Now that I see this video, it's even harder counting the days I'll be able to build up the Strael 3.0

[shmuelyosef]

I bought a Strael and a Secan about 3 years ago and love these bikes. Indeed the preparation was awesome and perfect. My old fixed-gear bike has outlived it's life and I decided to strip it and add a new frame to my collection. I purchased a Fixie frame from State Bicycle, a USA domestic manufacturer that has a pretty good reputation. As I was building up the frame, I realized just how wonderful the Fairlight frame prep was.

This is in no way a slur on the State Fixie, which is beautiful and a nice ride. I did, however, notice all the additional labor that I had to put into the assembly, chasing threads, filing a few burrs, replacing the mounting bolts with something a little more artistic, etc...

The Fairlight Framesets did cost 3 times at about $1000 US (each!!) A good example of getting what you pay for, but in this case it turned out just fine.

[pacholopez]

Llevo ocho días montando una Secan 2.5 54T, Deep Blue. Tremendamente cómoda, ágil, y corresponden tal cual prometen en su página con todas las características. Gran empresa constructora de bicicletas!

[PansRocks]

Thinking about one of these as my next bike, they look good and that's a very impressive stapler!

[robertkujawa]

Spraying an automotive cavity was is a good idea before you build up your new steel frame. Did that to my Strael 2.0 when it arrived!

[Epicureaneman]

Awesome. Do mine next :) do you apply framesaver ?

[miguelarias]

Hello, do you guys make a rim brake, Di2 ready, and 32mm wide wheel frames. If not, perhaps you should, there is an unmet demand. Not everybody wants or needs disk brakes.

[JamesBond-hykv]

Wait, you need to print a label with my address on 😂

[CarlinTran]

Are all framesets ordered prepped like this ?

[shaneruddock]

Please if you can…not even SJS cycles or SON have a video up… please make a video on how to correctly solder the SON junction box and get polarity perfect. It’s designed to connect both a charging device and run lights at same time while only having one wire up the fork. Thank god a video went up for coaxial connector but as soon as i plug in my jack to my usb port my lights turn off. Cant figure out if it’s the junction box improperly wired or the separate jack i soldered. Really annoyed due to sheer cost of setup and zero info. I do own alot of the same soldering items like yourself from SON to try and remain using dynamo systems possibly selling complete kits as a side job

[janeblogs]

So all the dwarf is left in the frame for the future owner?

[peterahlstedt]

Its pity that we need to pay 14% in extra tax after Brexit when we buy and send to Sweden