Hello Ian,
I just followed one of your suggested links (www.trykit.com) and I found it to be slightly shocking. I had no idea that trikes were ever built to such competition specifications. There looks to be at least one trike built out of Reynolds 953 stainless steel tubing. The mind boggles! It's beautifully fillet brazed, especially considering that fillet brazing 953 tubing is apparently very difficult to fillet braze.
Nor had I heard of Geoff Brooker before now, yet he lives less than 10 miles down the road. Do you think he makes racks and other randonneur orientated things for solo bikes?
Mark Lawrence Oxford, United Kingdom
________________________________________ From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of lemansgtman@aol.com [lemansgtman@aol.com] Sent: 24 October 2009 20:25 To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR] Trikes - current builder in UK... FYI and othr great trike stuff (Ian Briggs)
Hello all,
I've been away from the 'pooter for a few days and have just picked up the discussion about trike riding and current builders...
So sorry if this input is a bit late or has been covered in the interim - but one the UK's finest builders of trike frames - and indeed all the mechanicals; is my old chum Geoff Booker, based near Oxford.
Definitely 'KOF', he does virtually only trike fabrication - but can of course build you a 'standard' bike frame.
As a toolmaker by trade Geoff's work is meticulous and he can fabricate virtually anything out of metal - for instance take a look at his hubs - brilliant...
Geoff knows that when I have the funds available he'll be getting an order from me - in the meantime I'm riding / racing my trusty old pre-war Claud Butler lugless (bike) frame that Lynton Threadgold of Manchester brazed a Holdsworth rear axle onto for me about 10 years ago...
Anyone with an interest in trikes and trike racing will do well to look here: http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/
and here: http://www.3wielweb.be/
We have our own UCI-sanctioned World Championships (run in Belgium in 2008 and France this year) which, as it happens, Geoff Booker is the organiser for in October 2010 - at Blenheim Palace as part of the Bike Festival.
Ian Briggs
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.