

To order a frame, customers use RBC's website to input their height, inside leg measurements and arm span, from which the size of the frame is then calculated. RBC founding partner Ed Haythornthwaite added that technology developments would eventually bring bespoke bikes to a wider market. For £4,395 the Robot Bike Co (RBC) will build customers a bespoke frame with carbon fibre components and tubing bonded into the double lap joints of additive manufactured lugs made from powdered titanium.ĭespite the price tag, RBC maintains that the R160 fulfils criteria missing in today's mountain bikes, with AM parts allowing for customisation in a market more used to moulding carbon fibre frames in three sizes.
