Sturdy Cycles was established by combining Tom Sturdy’s lifelong love of bikes with his academic background in Aerospace Engineering and Sports Biomechanics. Along with his experience as an elite level athlete Tom has a unique perspective from which to design and optimise made to measure bike design. Sturdy work together as a small but dedicated team to create some of the most beautiful, technologically advanced titanium bicycles in the world. Each bicycle is a unique piece of engineering that aims to provide the owner with a truly one of a kind cycling experience.

Tom has worked continuously producing fully bespoke and custom bicycles for riders from a diverse range of backgrounds. In this time he experimented with, and explored, every fabrication and finishing process within his reach, from painting his own frames to producing custom made carbon tubing and shoes. Alongside this work Tom has also worked as a frame building teacher assisting hundreds of novice builders in the design and fabrication of their own custom bicycle frames. His switch to fully titanium fabrication was driven by an urge to offer his customers the best possible product that he was capable of making. Titanium is extremely durable, easy to maintain and provides a stiffness profile that he believes best suits the human body. His first experiments with 3D printing titanium began in 2017 and were intended to help streamline the frame fabrication and finishing process. The Sturdy Cycles 3D printed parts have now benefitted from over 5 years of continuous development and improvement. Tom is working at the vanguard of metal 3D printing technologies, always adjusting to exploit the most recent improvements of this continuously developing technology

THE Sturdy bike RANGE

Fiadh

Fiadh is an Old Irish name meaning ‘Wild’ or ‘Free’. Fiadh is the Sturdy Cycles answer to the every day, dependable road bike. Sturdy has a customisable geometry set that allows us to tune the ride quality and handling to your individual preference. Maybe you want a bike for the midweek chain gang - fast, aggressive and exciting. Perhaps this is going to be the dream bike you take on your next trip to the Alps - reliable, responsive and comfortable for those long climbs. This could be the bike you use to escape the day to day grind - dependable and capable on a variety of surfaces and road conditions.

CILLA

This bike is named after Tom’s late mother Cilla Sturdy. Cilla was an enthusiastic cyclist with a real sense of adventure. Cilla’s tendency to reject the classic ‘out and back’ style route would often find her rambling through farmers fields and skipping gates in search of a more intrepid route. This bike is a tribute to her curiosity for the great British countryside and love of the natural world. With a fully customisable geometry set this bike is the Sturdy answer to a modern multi surface drop bar bicycle. Whether you think of it as adventure, cyclocross, fast touring, all-road or gravel style riding this bike has got you covered. The bike has been developed and tested this bike on the numerous gravel and single track routes in our home counties of Somerset and Wiltshire. Cilla is perfectly adapted for a variety of off-road adventures; featuring clearance for tyre widths up to 50mm, comfortable geometry and the option to customise bottle cage and cargo mounting locations. This bike has everything you need to ride with the spirit of Cilla.

Sidhe

The name of this bike refers to the Old Irish mythology of the Sidhe people. A race of mysterious spirits that held power over all the mysteries of nature. Often their presence was indicated by a swift wind whipped up as if from nowhere. It is this wind that we had in mind when naming our aerodynamic road bike. Designed in tandem with Éimear (Sturdy’s dedicated time trial bike) and benefitting from the same simulated and real world testing. Tom’s background in triathlon, time trial racing and wind tunnel testing is the genesis of this model - Sidhe is designed to slice through the air and ride with the wind.

Éimear

Éimear is an old Irish name which is believed to be derived from the word ‘eimh’ meaning Swift, Fast, Ready or Quick. Éimear is our all out, super fast, time trial dedicated bike. Éimear is a seriously unique proposition in the cycling world - fully custom fit and geometry with a legitimately aerodynamic advantage over bikes produced using traditional fabrication methods.

A rare beast built for the most committed athletes. The increased comfort and biomechanical advantage that can be achieved from a custom fit process allows the rider to remain comfortable in a compromised position for longer. The 3D printed base bar is integrated with the Wattshop Anemoi adjustable aero extension systems - manufactured in the UK and easily adaptable for testing and perfecting a range of rider positions. In designing this bike Tom has combined his experience working in a wind tunnel with his extensive knowledge of 3D printed structures. Sturdy don’t provide hard statistics or watt saving figures as these are exactly the types of claims that are easily manipulated or more often don’t stack up in real world scenarios. This is also complicated due to the fact the bike will vary in overall shape based on your specific bike fit and chosen geometry. Aerodynamics are optimised for a 25mm or 28mm tyre size

Parts and components

To get full control over the critical interfaces that a rider has with the bike, Sturdy have developed a range or proprietary components to complement the frames and get the full benefit of a truly optimised design. Some of these are being made available as standalone parts that you can purchase.

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