Making a decision about what kind of bike your going to spend your hard earned money is not one to be taken lightly. Its easy to be fooled into going home with the one that grabs your attention at the shop or that will be easily equated with quality or exclusivity by your peers but a good bike will be your partner for years and considering where you see yourself going with your investment will make sure you aren’t going to be let down when you really need it by your side, (err. under your ass)

It is a reasonable request of a custom builder that the ride you go home with will truly be yours so despite the list of identifiable categories below you could find that what you are really after is an amalgam to suit your style of riding.

Whether it is a specific purpose machine to round out your cycle stable with a ride tuned to a particular type of event or an all arounder that you’d like to have take you to whatever suits your fancy on any given day a Budd Bike Works frame could be built to deliver as a frame for you to hang your parts on or as a ready to ride complete with part chosen through honest consultation about what may work best rather than what is sitting on the shelf & needs to be pushed out to make way for the next model year inventory. There are a lot of great bicycles out there to day. My purpose designing and building them as Budd Bike Works is to make for you one that you’ll be able to love because it works with you, not because it turns heads. Though there is nothing wrong with looking good together.

That said, to elucidate upon your options and pricing I’ll try to explain from the ground up your basic bare bones frame through to all the accroutremants that can be included.

The First Question, How and where do you want to ride your Bike?

Your first decision concerns the performance parameters of the frame itself. What kind of terrain you see yourself encountering,(?) What parts would be most appropriate to run,(?) Your Size and your riding style will determine the layout of the steel tubing that comprises the the bones of your bicycle.

The frame can be designed and built to run tight and quick exclusively on asphalt, as an all arounder, or to plod through rock gardens with aplomb. Tubes and some dropouts, the base will be just that. The bike that consumes the least time for me to build is the fixie and I can offer them in track, quick street, cross or mountain geometry to your fit your person.

A BBW frame with nothing and a standard tubeset will run you to the Tune of $1000

The base frame is supplied with rear entry horizontal dropouts or with an eccentric Bottom Bracket to take up chain tensioning duties for an additional $75

Exotic steel alloys can be substituted for the standard double butted 4130 main triangle to upgrade to a higher performance Budd Light or Extra Stout models for an additional $150 in a ride tuned Street Budd, Mudd Budd, or Cross Budd Geometry

How do you want to STOP your bike?

I don’t endorse people jumping into the stock bare bones Budd Bikes Chassis without at least a fork mounted front brake unless you are looking for a dedicated Track Bike. Rear braking duties can be taken up by Road Calipers (short reach if you know you’ll never want to run larger than a 25mm tire and no fenders or long reach up to 28mm with fenders or 32mm without), Cantilever or V-brake options for more power and truly commodious clearance for muddied tires, or weather and rim independent discs. Any single braking accomodation and the appropriate cable routing adds $75 to the price, secondary braking options can be had for an additional $50.

Changing Gears?

The simplicity of the base Budd is a beautiful things but if you envision yourself tackling varied terrain in anything resembling comfort over hours you may want the option of accomodating a multispeed drivetrain. Cable routing for front and rear shifting and a derailleur hangar can be added to the horizontal drop-out or eccentric equipped frame to give you the option of using either a single speed or any multi-speed drivetrain or a simpler vertical dropout can be used if you know the bike will only be run with a rear derailleur.

Cable Routing and hangars add an additional $100 to the frame price.

What to Take With You?

Thirsty? Water bottle mount bosses are a good idea for anything you see yourself riding for more than an hour at a time. $25/set

Load it up. Discrete Rear Rack Mounts $50

How Shiny?

Don’t be afraid to ask if you want your bike to shimmer like a diamond in the sun, I can give you some polished stainless bits or a deep multi-coat paint job. Finish upgrades and stainless options will be quoted on an individual basis and determined by market price for the upgraded materials and the time/expense required for the finish level desired.