As Australia’s key custom bike show, the FYXO Melburn Custom Bike Show was a showcase of Australian boutique builders and brands. In this third and final part to the show, we look at some wildly large wheels from Fikas, speak to a former Boeing engineer turned cycling carbon wizard – and look at an early brand concept that adopts musical theory for ride quality design.
- Australian Custom Bikes - Part One
- Australian Custom Bikes - Part Two
- Custom 3D printed bikes from Bastion
Fikas Custom Bicycle Frames
Based in Queanbeyan, just outside of Canberra, Australia, Luke Laffan creates Fikas Bikes. Building bikes isn’t a full-time gig for Laffan, but rather is something he does between other jobs as a metal fabricator – such as the display mounts he’s creating for the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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Thirty-six inch wheels! Why? We're not sure
At the show, Laffan was displaying a front-suspendion 36in wheeled titanium mountain bike. Built for a local customer that arrived at his door on a penny-farthing, this bike is certainly different.
The 130mm linkage front fork is a fully custom item fashioned from machined alloy plate, titanium axles and a RockShox XX Monarch rear shock.
Luescher Teknik
Lyrebird Cycles (tonewood composite bikes)
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