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magna13:
cant beleive nobodys said the ledgendery DP Racing  :smitten:

dannywhiteley:
Rebel... of course!

RATTY:
Holeshot

Didnt birmingham wheels have their own frame?

ACE racing made frame sets as well

thesku11s:
Jesus, I should really learn to be more specific.

I know there used to be loooads of makers, with loads more "engineering dad" types around in the 70's-80's too who would build frames for their nippers.

And teams etc, like Birmingham Wheels doing there own.


But I was thinking about now! Any BMX frame & component manufacturers still putting stuff together here? Or custom frame builders etc that do BMX's

I wouldve thought that as steel frames are most popular in BMX they still be loads of small outfits.

dialledbikes:
If we're talking present day I can only think of Curtis (although as someone above says, they now get some of their frames made in Taiwan) and Hidden Nation (if they're still going, as I haven't heard much about them recently).  Still quite a few quality road and MTB frame builders in the UK though (e.g. Dave Yates, Chas Roberts, Robin Mather, etc).

Unfortunately, the UK is better at "making money" (i.e. banking, financial services, etc) these days than it is at "making things".  I would've loved to have got my frames made in the UK, but there's no one who can make them in the volumes I buy them (e.g. 100 at a time) and even if they could, the quality would still probably not be as good as Taiwan (70% of the worlds bikes are made there now, so they've become very good at it) and the price would be a lot more.  So instead of trying to get my frames made over here, I use British tubing (Reynolds) and support UK cycling causes instead (e.g. race team, regional/club races, Rough Ride, etc).

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