Philosophy

    Darren Baum

    No matter how beautiful a bike is, it is incomplete until it is ridden. The bike is nothing without a rider. Therefore, to make a perfect bike, its rider must be present in the design. If people came in just five standard sizes the evolution of the bicycle would be complete, but we are all different. Every rider is unique, and a bicycle can only improve a rider’s performance if it respects their individual differences.

    To make a bike that is super light, fast and still comfortable is something special indeed. But there is a quality beyond that, something special that’s been a part of all our favorite bikes over the years, something that causes them to lodge in our hearts. What’s important to us is to build bikes that have that quality. Special bikes. Favorites. And it’s important that they are this way not for the first year or two, but for at least a decade. We hope that our bikes, most of them anyway, are lifers.

    With this in mind, all stages of manufacturing from C.A.D., to tube mitring, to butting and to painting are completed in-house, to ensure absolute control. We machine our own head tubes, bottom brackets and dropouts to optimise the alignment, weight and stiffness. We do our own butting, shaping and heat-treating under the same roof. All of our frames are painted in the paint facility we developed with the help of PPG, the worlds leading supplier of high performance paints. Every detail of our bikes is ours, so that every nuance of your bike will be yours.

    Recent Journal Entries
    • We need someone great to come and run the Front of House at Baum, to be the Maitre d’ of the Baum team – in person, on the phone, or by written communication. Job satisfaction comes from connecting customers for our bikes with the perfect Baum machine for them, and ensuring that process is smooth, [...]

    • January 10, 2012

      Going straight to the top

      Sometimes we have a bike that manages to strike a chord, Brian's Corretto is one of those.   Ever since it made it up on our Flickr site it has been a huge hit. Appearing on multiple blogs including Velo Liberte, Tumblr and bike forums.   For the time being it'll be tearing up the roads in Malayasia, [...]

    • November 21, 2011

      Some morning reading

      We were flicking through our copies of RIDE magazine with the morning coffee when we noticed something that looked a little familiar      that's correct, our Turanti cyclocross bike is now ready to order. There will be a more in depth look at the Turanti in the coming weeks, however if you would like a read [...]