Morph Cycles | Hampshire

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If you could only have one bike to ride for the next 5+ years what would that bike look like?

For me it would have to be something versatile and adaptable, fun to ride anywhere, easy to maintain and it would have to be designed so that it wasn't going to look super outdated in a couple years time.

This was the train of thought that led me to found Morph Cycles.

I ended up designing this low-standover single-pivot 29er that had a party trick. You could run it with a 140 fork for trail bike type characteristics, or you could switch to a 160 fork and flip the flipchip and have more aggressive geometry. It's almost like having 2 bikes.

In both configurations you get 142mm of linear rear suspension - linear means it's a blank canvas to do what you want with - you can tune it to ride how you want it to because there's no progression or regression engineered into the leverage curve. You can decide yourself whether you want to set it up with an air shock and tokens to be progressive or whether you'd rather keep it linear with no tokens or a coil.

The fork travel doesn't have to be something you change often - you can run it with a fixed travel suspension fork and never change it if you want to, but I figure it's a cool option to have.

Why Single Pivot?

Single pivot designs have always had great advantages. The platform is very predictable, can be tuned to give a wide variety of characteristics and is extremely simple to maintain.

Historically, single pivot designs have had a bad reputation for bobbing under pedalling and suffering from chain growth. With the advent of 1x drivetrains the impact of both of these factors have been significantly reduced. With careful pivot placement the anti-squat is over 100% in all of the climbing gears. The high tuneability of modern shocks and the introduction of climb switches has also benefited the single pivot platform considerably.

Why Steel?

Steel bikes have a timelessness not seen in other frame materials. They don't look like last year's model after only 1-2 seasons. Steel also gives beautiful clean lines, excellent fatigue resistance and desirable flex characteristics.

This is also no ordinary straight-gauge steel tubing; the UK is home to Reynolds, makers of some of the finest bicycle tubing available anywhere. The Reynolds 853 DZB tube set used is double butted, heat treated and air hardened. This means these tubes have great mechanical properties and there's more material where the stresses are higher and less material where it's not needed to save weight.

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Environment

I believe strongly in trying to minimise the environmental impact of this business. I believe the best thing we can do the for the environment as mountain bikers is to use our bikes for longer before replacing them. For that reason I don't believe in introducing a new model every year, quickly making the previous frames "old news". I have designed my frames to be easily fixed and serviced and I will always do my best to make available spare parts to keep my frames in use.

Some packaging is required to ensure safe transportation, but I will always do my best to minimise any use of non-recyclable packaging when sending out frames and t-shirts.

Order Process

Each frame is going to be made to order and there will be a degree of customisation available. This means that the frame geometry will be altered to suit you and your requirements. We'll talk about your height and proportionality, where you ride and your preferences to make sure we get sizing and geometry that suits you.

The frame will be hand built in France by my business partner Gael Baudou. You can then have it painted whatever colour you want, so long as that colour is black.

Because of the made-to-order business model there will be a lead time associated with each frame. I will always be 100% transparent about lead times.

I'll discuss build options with you and help you to pick out spec that's going to build you a really killer bike.

The price for a frame is £2000 - that price includes a DVO Topaz shock and a Hope seat clamp.

Forks, droppers, headsets, cranks and other components can be added to the order at additional cost.

If you are interested in one of my frames please register your interest below and feel free to get in touch with any questions (see contact section for details).

ABOUT

Morph Cycles is a start-up MTB company I founded whilst at university. At least 1000 hours of research and development went into this frame over about 2 years. I designed the frame from the ground up using Linkage X3, Siemens NX and a lot of creative juices.

I'm planning to start taking orders for frames in early 2020. If you would like a to be one of the first people to get a Morph Cycles frame please get in touch!

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