Pias Cycles Peregrine Prototype

On Pias Cycles, we have a thing for steel. It's our material of choice to make our frames: let's face it, it's been with us way longer than any other bicycle-making materials available. I can wax on nostalgic thoughts about it's riding characteristics and stuffs, but to make things short: we just love to ride properly designed steel frames.

Because people are making steel frames for as long as we can remember, a couple things comes to mind. For instance, how can we improve it? Can we incorporate modern features using the humble steel that we all know and love? Can we do that while retaining the proven classic design lines that we all adore?

Enter our fun little project, the Pias Peregrine.

A Century Later: PIAS Scarab Prototype

First of all, I'd like to set things straight. This is not just a bicycle I've built, this is also a bicycle I designed from the ground up. I might be biased, so let's not consider this as a "true" review. I put this under the "A Century Later" category because this article sums up all the experiences I have after more than 160 (total) kilometers. Now move along.

You might have seen all the build possibilities on the PIAS Scarab, and this is one of them. I decided to built it as a all-weather roadbike so I can put it under testing on any weather conditions. That, and because of all the bicycles I have in my stable, this is the only one that can be fitted with full-shroud fenders.

A Century Later: HOW Jakarta x Pancalen Cycles Rolltop Bag

Considered as many as favorable hangout spot, our shop received frequent visit by the good fellas from HOW Jakarta. What started out as nonsense banter at the shop ends up in this product: a rolltop bag named "Deny", designed to my requirements. Ahey!

A Century Later: Fitra's Somec Mercury

Building bicycles is an interesting business. Sometimes you stumbled a project so interesting that you kind of fall in love during the process. And there comes that feeling when the said bicycle returns to your shop for repairs or fine tuning, and you sort of watch the bicycle grow along with its new scratches and battle scars. It's just a machine, but it has soul.

A Century Later: Masi Partenza with SRAM Apex

A while back we received our first batch of Masi bicycles, and Robby Susilo of Rocket Company kindly gave us away one Partenza along with it. Respect!