{"id":596915,"date":"2026-08-18T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596915\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:12:23","slug":"quirk-cycles-launches-small-batch-kegety-steel-gravel-frameset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596915\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirk Cycles launches small-batch Kegety steel gravel frameset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quirk Cycles has announced the Kegety steel gravel frameset, which will be made in small batches in stock geometries, building on the brand\u2019s experience producing custom frames.<\/p>\n<p>Quirk Cycles was founded by Rob Quirk in 2015 and is still based in Hackney, East London, where its frames are designed and made.<\/p>\n<p>According to Quirk: \u201cI originally designed the Kegety for the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/features\/routes-and-rides\/horse-for-the-course-silk-road-mountain-race\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Road Mountain Race<\/a>, to explore how capable a gravel bike could be on genuinely rough terrain. I learnt a lot from that experience, and it shaped a bike that marries stability with responsiveness when the terrain becomes truly demanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Quirk-Cycles-Production-Gravel-Bike-58-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989012\"\/>Rob Quirk originally designed the Kegety for the 2018 Silk Road Mountain Race. <\/p>\n<p>The Kegety frameset is made of Columbus Life steel tubing, with Quirk adding its own 3D-printed head tube, seat tube cluster and dropouts.\u00a0It offers 50mm tyre clearance and is compatible with 1x electronic groupsets only, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/advice\/workshop\/sram-udh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Derailleur Hanger<\/a>, a T47 bottom bracket and mudguard mounts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Quirk-Cycles-Production-Gravel-Bike-7-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989007\"\/>Quirk fits an ENVE fork and cockpit to the Kegety. <\/p>\n<p>Quirk fits an ENVE Gravel In-Route fork and cockpit, both colour-matched to the frame, with three colour options available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quirk had previously specialised in bespoke frames custom built for its riders. After Rapha founder Simon Mottram requested a frameset for the Manchester to London ride, he subsequently became a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/rapha-founder-simon-mottram-invests-in-quirk-cycles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lead investor<\/a> in a 2025 \u00a3500,000 funding round, which enabled Quirk to expand its facilities and move to small-batch production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuirk isn\u2019t following trends; it\u2019s defining what\u2019s next for boutique performance cycling, and I\u2019m excited to help him scale this vision into a modern, globally respected performance brand,\u201d Mottram said at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Quirk-Cycles-Production-Gravel-Bike-18-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989009\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/>Quirk 3D-prints its seat cluster, headset and dropouts for the Kegety. <\/p>\n<p>Quirk has subsequently launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/2026-quirk-bikes-mamtor-founders-edition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mamtor<\/a> road and Durmitor race small-batch framesets, with the Kegety its third stock geometry frame.<\/p>\n<p>The Kegety can be bought now, with dispatch scheduled for October. The frameset is priced at \u00a34,999, complete with ENVE carbon fork, ENVE In-Route Aero Stem and Chris King AeroSet headset.<\/p>\n<p>The frame kit is priced at \u00a35,699 and adds an ENVE Aero Road In-Route handlebar and ENVE seatpost and full builds are available from \u00a310,550.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>International orders are priced at $5,721 \/ \u20ac4,963 for a frameset and $12,074 \/ \u20ac10,474 for full builds, plus local taxes and delivery charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quirk Cycles has announced the Kegety steel gravel frameset, which will be made in small batches in stock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-596915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}