Custom Bike Builds
Pedal Passion, Brisbane's Premier Destination for Custom Built Bikes.
Pedal Passion, Brisbane's Premier Destination for Custom Built Bikes.
The last decade has seen an absolute revolution in road and gravel tech. But despite integrated cockpits, hidden hydraulic lines, and the latest wireless groupsets—which are supposed to make a mechanic’s life "easier"—the reality of putting together a high-performance machine is more complex than ever.
It’s both a brutal challenge and an incredibly fulfilling craft.
Many riders think building a modern superbike is just like playing with Lego. We agree on one thing: anyone can bolt parts onto a frame and call it a bicycle.
But there’s a massive gap between a bike that’s simply put together, and a bike that is truly built to perform.
When you're descending at 80 km/h, cornering hard on the Alpine climbs, or contesting a local crit, you don't just need a bike. You need a flawless extension of your body.
Anyone can assemble a bike. But not everyone can build a machine that’s perfectly tensioned, completely rattle-free, and optimised for pure performance.
That is where the art lies.
We define a bike which is built up to spec not just by its look, there are many different aspects that have to be put in together for a bike to be judged as a good build for example, performance, longevity, deterioration of parts and material. A badly built bike will still roll smoothly for the first thousand kilometres until the placebo effect wears off and your very first common problem has started to appear which is creaking, brakes throwing, disc and pad rubbing, headset loose despite you have tightened it multiple times. None of it should have happened if the frame and components are prepared properly before build.
Every frame we build will be thoroughly inspected and checked for tolerance and compatibility because we know what a good bike should be built to spec and not just pull out of the box and just plug and play.
Benefits of tailor build
Custom build doesn’t mean anything if it’s without purpose.
Bike build cater for specific roads, weather, climiate and riding style (e.g. Brisbane's coastal wind and air salt)
Gravel Bike build (play gear ratio with 1by,2by and classified hub) bigger jump or possible smaller jump to achieve the same highest gear ratio?
Wheel Size. 700c vs 650B, how to do the choose the right size properly to create and gain the benefit?