Cycle Show - Day 3

It's been another amazing and humbling day for us today. We have now overtaken our order expectations twice over and people keep coming and tell us how beautiful our bicycles look. Some of our existing customers also visited the stand and were seen later flaunting our flyers around the Show's venue: "flying the flag" for us.

Our Girl Saturday, accompanied by her mum, joined us for a while and give us a hand with the visitors to the stand (pictured above with Ernie). Niamh is 16 and first joined Witcomb as a work experience, not knowing much about bikes. She now comes in every Saturdays and can do all sorts of minor repairs and lots of other useful things around the shop. And she is lovely. She wants to study engineering and we hope to turn her into a frame-builder one of these days.

For some times now, we have been mentioning our prototype white carbon frame. The visitors of the stand have all been very complementary about it, saying how beautiful and sexy it looks. So finally, here is a photo of the thing itself.


The whole frame, including the handle-bar, the bottle holders and the saddle (which looks gorgeous but also damn hard!), is build in white carbon fibre to Barrie's design and we hope to be able to sell a bespoke version of this frame early next year.

The day closed with a drinks party for all exhibitors at the show and many people drifted off to a nearby pub to go and watch the Rugby match.