Build a Custom Bike with Collin Schaafsma
Matter Cycles offers modern, custom bikes, handmade in Boulder, Colorado by Collin Schaafsma. Matter specializes in bikes that like to get dirty and offers several models for the ultimate quiver.
What You'll Get
Hands-on Education - Let Collin guide you through your bike design and build from start to finish. You'll explore the many facets of custom bike building, while learning the tools, techniques and elements that make Matter bikes superior in design and construction: welding, brazing, frame proofing and alignment, tube mitering, best practices and safety in the shop.
100% Custom - Design your bike, choose your components, finishes, and build it alongside Collin. 100% awesome.
Build a Custom Steel Bike Frame
Description - Your Matter bike building experience begins with a design consult with Collin in his Boulder workshop. From there, in a series of sessions, you'll experience first-hand the fundamentals of bike design and building as you build your bike. You'll learn the essentials of welding, mitering, fixture design, brazing, frame proofing and alignment.
Location: Matter Cycles, 2700 Winding Trail Drive, Boulder, CO 80304
Cost - Steel bike frames start at $2,000.
Includes all materials for steel frame, building instruction and use of all equipment.
Additional costs beyond your custom steel frame will vary depending on build out.
All build kits are completely customizable and vary in cost depending on components selected.
We require a $25 deposit to book your experience. The next step is easy: we'll contact you within 24 hours of receiving your deposit to get started.
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About Collin Schaafsma, Matter Cycles
Collin Schaafsma, master builder and founder of Matter Cycles, grew up on a farm racing motocross, building dirt jumps, and tinkering in the shop with a welder. This somehow led to art school, software engineering and a ton of bike riding/racing along the way.
Two years ago Collin felt the pull of getting back to the shop and started designing and building the bikes he wanted: born from smart geometry and designed for today’s style of riding in high-end steel. Because a limited amount of Matter bikes leave the nest each year, Collin also gets to build the bikes the way he wants to: no detail is overlooked. Each bike is made by hand using very exact, repeatable construction methods, and carefully TIG welded in an extremely clean environment. Made to order, made to be ridden and made to last, his bikes are also a ton of fun.
“I believe that riding a bike is a very creative venture and an extension of yourself. Having a bike that is made just for you is an awesome experience. You shouldn’t have to compromise in fit, finishes or component choices.”