Asylum Cycles

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The Story isn't very complex. Asylum Cycles came to life out of a love for big, fat wheels, pure and simple. But if you want to know, it all started when a guy at a bike shop (Chris at Speedgoat Bicycles) convinced a guy at a bike company (Chris at Titus Cycles) to build him a one-off 29" wheeled Racer-X. This first bike was titanium with an aluminum seatstay and chainstay, and built around a rough guess at how to improve on the horribly low bottom-brackets and whacked out handling of most of the 29ers that were available at the time. The bike was fabricated. It hit the trails. And then commenced the tweaking. Speedgoat Chris had a desire to slacken the angles even more than they were originally (slowly, everyone is just now coming to realize how well some aspects of the original Asylum geometry work with 29" wheels), and a hankerin' to try to convert a Marzocchi Shiver SC into a 29er fork. The result radically changed the ride of the bike. And it was good. Titus Chris visited, rode the bike, and agreed. Something was going on here. Four or five years and a few ideas later, the lighter and more affordable aluminum framed Asylum bikes were officially born, and they continue to carry on the high-standards of classic frame builders. Every Asylum is built of aerospace-grade aluminum and welded in America. Small parts are available to support you and keep your Asylum rolling for years and years...

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