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UNCOMPROMISING PERFORMANCE

While many of us dream of building our own bike, designed to exactly match our desires and finished to the standard of a top-end production frame, the sad truth is that most people lack the skills and equipment on hand to make it happen.

Milton Bloomfield is not most people.

Milton is the owner of Dynamic Composites, a small Christchurch-based engineering, design, and carbon manufacturing workshop specialising in jobs other outfits consider too tricky. The company started up in 1997.

“If someone tells us it’s too hard, you can’t do that, that’s what gets me excited,” Milton says.

He’s a passionate mountain biker, and having all that gear and knowledge on hand meant the temptation to build his own rig was irresistible.

He’s come up with a gnar-crushing all-carbon freeride bike, running a high pivot suspension layout with a 63 degree head angle and 180mm front/190mm rear travel

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