Gravel Your Way

Tire Clearance: 700x45mm, 650x53mm; or up to 700x50mm or 650x57mm with wide-spaced chainrings
Brake Style: Flat-mount disc
Ideal terrain: Everything from paved and dirt roads to the roughest gravel you can find
Materials: Titanium or Ti-Carbon

The bike industry sometimes uses “gravel” as if it has a set definition, but the reality is that it means very different things to different people and in different locations. That’s why you’ll see some stock gravel bikes designed like old hardtail mountain bikes and some with geometries like road racing bikes that just fit bigger tires.

Over the years, we’ve built hundreds of bikes for every use and terrain you can dream up; from gravel racing to bike-packing, and from the infamous gravel around Emporia, Kansas, to isolated dirt roads and paths of Romania, to picturesque but sometimes washed out farm roads in Vermont, to the road to single track transitions of the “gravel” routes around Boston, and on and on.

That variety of uses is what makes our custom process so valuable. Our expertise, part what makes our bikes special, is knowing how to fit, design, and build bikes for any and all of those possibilities. 

We’ve developed technologies like adaptive butting, our 3D printed chainstay yoke, and our Ti fork to help us tailor each bike perfectly to your needs. And, most importantly, we know how to effectively apply those technologies and the vast possibilities with custom frame design to create the perfect bike for the way you want to ride.

Pricing

COMPLETE CUSTOM BIKES :: $8,000 TO $13,000+
CUSTOM TITANIUM FRAMESET PRICE :: $5,200
CUSTOM TI-CARBON FRAMESET PRICE :: $6,900

Bike companies are constantly searching for the perfect balance of stiffness, comfort, and lightweight. Ironically, the material key to that balance, the material of dream bikes, has been available the whole time. That material is titanium, and we have been honing our titanium frame-building skills crafting custom frames since 1995. We start with the best quality 3/2.5 titanium tubing sourced from top aerospace tubing suppliers. After we have designed a geometry and selected tube dimensions to suit your riding style, we machine, externally butt, bend, and miter the tubing all in-house to meet your bike’s specific needs. In other words, every single element of the construction is custom for you. The result is a velvety smooth, light, and efficient bike with unrivaled durability and unlimited finish options. With titanium, your dream bike today can be your dream bike in 20 years.

Our goal has always been to make the very best bike possible for every riding style, and titanium’s exceptional combination of versatility, durability, ride quality, and light weight have always been at the heart of achieving that goal. At the same time, carbon bikes are everywhere for a reason. When done right, carbon is light, stiff, strong, and quiets road vibrations beautifully. By blending custom mandrel-rolled, tapered carbon tubing with precision-machined titanium lugs and chainstays, we are able to combine the best qualities of both materials into a single, extraordinary frame. The result is a truly high performance bike that is slightly lighter and stiffer than a full ti frame, all while maintaining the fully custom design, superb ride feel, and unmatched attention to detail that set all of our frames apart from the crowd. This is the pinnacle of ride quality, aesthetics, and frame design.

TITANIUM :: STANDARD FEATURES

Fully custom frame geometry and tube selection
Meticulously TIG-welded construction
68mm English-threaded BB
Firefly custom 142x12mm flat-mount disc brake dropouts (UDH compatibility available)
Proprietary Adaptive Butted Tubing
44mm straight head tube for tapered forks
700x45mm and 650×2.1” tire clearance (or up to 700x50mm or 650x57mm with wide-spaced chainrings)
Enve G-Series Gravel fork

TITANIUM :: OPTIONS

Firefly Gravel fork // $1700
Internal Di2 or EPS routing // $200
Internal brake routing // $350
Pressfit30 or T47 BB // $75
3D-printed chainstay yoke for max tire clearance with the shortest possible chainstay length // $200
Oversized tapered head tube // $100
Enve Adventure fork // $75
Proprietary tapered carbon integrated seat post // $800
Custom frame bag mounts // $100
Integrated light wiring // $200
Travel couplers // $1300
Rack mounts // no extra cost
Fender mounts // no extra cost
Pump peg // no extra cost
Pinion gearbox mount (new!) // $750
Bosch ebike upgrade // complete builds start at $11,000 (only available on full ti bikes within the US)

 

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Ti-Carbon :: Standard features

Fully custom frame geometry and tube selection
Meticulously TIG-welded, laser-cut titanium lug construction
Custom mandrel-rolled carbon tubing from Enve composites, including a tapered seat tube and top tube
Pressfit 30 bottom bracket
Firefly custom 142x12mm flat-mount disc brake dropouts (UDH compatibility available)
44mm straight or tapered head tube
700x45mm and 650×2.1” tire clearance (or up to 700x50mm or 650x57mm with wide-spaced chainrings)
3D-printed chainstay yoke for max tire clearance with the shortest possible chainstay length
Enve G-Series Gravel fork

Ti-Carbon :: Options

Firefly Gravel fork // $1700
Internal Di2 or EPS routing // $200
Internal brake routing // $350
Proprietary tapered carbon integrated seat post // $800
Enve Adventure fork // $75
Custom frame bag mounts // $100
Integrated light wiring // $200
BSA or T47 threaded BB // no extra cost
Rack mounts // no extra cost
Fender mounts // no extra cost
Pump peg // no extra cost

It displays the unique ability to be fun regardless of where I’m riding, seeming to transform to whatever bike I need: On pavement it feels like a fast, sporty road bike. On a dirt road it feels like a race worthy gravel bike. On easy singletrack it morphs into a rigid mountain bike!

No other bike I have tried matches this shape-shifting versatility. The FF997 is always the right bike. That’s why it’s fantastic.

FF has created the Dream Ti/Carbon bike to remind me that you should not set yourself any limits besides the physical ones whilst imagining your dream. No matter which ideas I might have had, FF went beyond my dreams to best implement them.

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