How cool is this custom-painted Starling Cycles Twist?
A few of you may have seen this one-off, never-to-be-repeated one-off already, we took it to a few events, races and shows last year. But it was never officially revealed and hasn’t appeared online anywhere… until now!
The idea was to create a real one-of-a-kind, eye-catching, head-turning bike that would show off exactly how custom our bikes can be and look GREAT at stuff like ArdRock.
We also saw a lot of custom-painted bikes in the early days of Starling and we thought it would be fun to bring them back – at least this once.
And so… the TJC Design custom Starling Cycles Twist was born.
The bike is a medium Starling Cycles Twist, our steel-framed mullet bike that can run either 135mm or 165mm.
It was built up with one of our made-in-Bristol, handmade frames and a selection of handpicked components. That includes a Cane Creek Helm fork, Cane Creek InLine Coil shock, Michelin WildEnduro tyres, SQ Lab saddle, BikeYoke dropper and a whole load of beautiful and silver Hope Technology components.
The paintwork is completely custom and a total one-off, applied to the frame and fork and with the added detail of colour-matching the rear-shock’s spring.
We always really loved those early-2000s Rocky Mountain maple-leaf paint jobs and took some inspiration for this project but instead of Maple leaves, we have Starlings.
The custom paint job was designed by John at Breath.Design and made by TJC Design, here in Bristol who typically work on motorsports gear and specialised in graphic design, airbrushing and custom paintwork.
If you’d like to own this bike, we’re selling the frame and forks. It’s a super limited edition, one-of-one, only one of its kind. Never to be repeated, nothing else like it. Price on enquiry.
Contact us if you’re interested in owning this special, one-off build for yourself.
A huge thanks to TJC Design for their work on this special project. And to John at Breath.Design for his work on the design.
And a huge thanks to Cane Creek, Hope, Michelin, SQ Lab and BikeYoke for their support with this build.
And, of course, to Moor Beer in Bristol for the photo-shoot location.
