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How

10 easy steps

Current prices are on the Prices page.
Leadtime is approximately 15 weeks for a road, cross, or gravel bike.
  1. Contact me.
  2. We'll discuss your needs and preferences. I'll provide a quote for your complete bicycle. 
  3. If you decide to go forward, pay a Refundable Deposit to hold your spot. You can pay online or any old-fashioned way.I'll keep you informed of the timeframe.
  4. When I am ready to design your bicycle in 3D, I'll contact you. If you decide to go forward, pay your Design Installment. At this point, your Deposit is not longer refundable.
  5. I'll design your frame in 3D, consulting with you. 
  6. Review your 3D Design.
  7. If you decide to go forward,  pay your 3D Print installment. Once the print goes forward, it is non-refundable. 
  8. Your lugs & parts are printed, I fabricate your frame and assemble your bicycle.
  9. Pay your Balance.
  10. I can ship your bike to you, a trusted shop, or come pick up your bike and we'll go for a ride.

​I accept credit cards via Square, PayPay, cashier's checks, personal checks, and suitcases full of cash.

Payment

The breakdown

PRICES
Have a look at the Prices page for the latest pricing.
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CONSULT
Refundable Deposit. Initial consultation is free.  At the end of the consultation period, I'll provide you with an itemized Design Proposal for your complete bicycle, including wheels and components.  In the Proposal I'll provide a final cost and an approximate timeframe.  I may need a bit of flexibility in your production schedule, but I will keep you informed.
DESIGN
Design Installment. If you decide the Design Proposal fits your needs and budget, I require a non-refundable Design Installment to develop your Métier Vélo frame, lugs, dropouts, and artwork in 3D-CAD. Once you pay your Design Installment, I start work on your frame design and your Deposit becomes non-refundable.
PRINT
Print Installment. Before I print your parts in titanium, I require a non-refundable payment to cover the cost of your lugs, dropouts, and other 3D-printed parts. After your lugs and parts are printed and prepared, I bond your tubes and lugs in the jig and prepare the frame for final assembly (cut threads, face bearing surfaces, bond cosmetics).
DELIVERY
Balance. Before I deliver your finished Métier Vélo bicycle, pay your Balance, which includes your components, fork, and wheels, as well as applicable sales tax and shipping.

Limitations  

Almost everything, but not quite

BLACK-Ti
You can have any color you want, as long as the carbon is black and the titanium is...satin titanium. 
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I can do cool cosmetics with titanium bits, embedded colors in the resin, and designs integrated into the printed parts.  24k gold accents?  Can do! Better than paint.

If you absolutely, positively need, need, need a fancy paint job, I will prep the frame for painting and send your frame to the paint shop of your choice.
HARDTAIL ONLY
There are a lot of manufacturers that have put way more time into designing and testing mountain bike rear suspension systems than I could, and they've even come up with some adequate mechanisms, if that is your thing. Given the choices already in the market, the compromises required in rear suspension design, and the cost of designing and 3D printing suspension components, I've decided not to go there.  However, if you have a unique suspension need, contact me and we can talk.  It will be really, really expensive, but we can do it if you want.  Be ready to sell your yacht.

Guarantee

Lifetime.

QUALITY
You just spent your kid's college fund on a Métier Vélo frame; be assured it was worth it. If anything goes wrong with your Métier Vélo frame I will repair or replace it. If anything goes wrong with your Métier Vélo manufactured parts, I will replace them. Components, forks, and wheels are warrantied by their respective manufacturers.
CRASH
You race, you crash.  If you break your Métier Vélo frame racing, I will repair or replace it. Collarbones and components not included.
STUPIDITY
Just drove into your garage with your Métier Vélo on the roof rack? Just backed into a bollard with your Métier Vélo on the hitch rack? I'll replace or repair your Métier Vélo frame. And make fun of you in the Métier Vélo Blog.  Probably by name.  And I will remove your automatic garage door opener for you. Seriously, you can't get out of your car to open the overhead door with your weak little-climber arms? Components, forks, and wheels not included.
GOD
Did an earthquake crush your Métier Vélo frame? Mudslide? Lightning strike? Cosmic rays? I'll replace it.
LIFETIME?
Well, my lifetime, which may not be longer than yours.
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In practice you've probably got 25 years or so. But if I can fix your Métier Vélo frame, I will. Otherwise you get another. 

We're all riders, after all.
Métier Vélo LLC • Las Cruces, New Mexico USA •  [email protected] • 385 202 6148