How to become
a FERN Rider.

Every FERN starts with your ideas. Send me an email with a first outline of your dream bike. Tell me a little about yourself, the riding you enjoy and what you would like your new bicycle to do for you.

Where do you want to go? What should the bike carry? What do you love about your current bicycle, and what would you change? This gives us a good starting point for a bicycle built around you.

If your ideas fit the kind of bicycles I build, we’ll arrange an initial phone call or a first short meeting at the workshop to discuss your project in more detail.

Afterwards, you’ll receive an initial concept and a rough quotation for your possible new FERN. A complete custom bicycle normally costs between €7,000 and €15,000, depending on the build and specification.

Timing depends on the project and the workshop schedule. We’ll discuss current lead times as part of the conversation.

If we both decide to go ahead, we’ll have a second meeting and spend a full day together in the workshop. I’ll look at your current bicycles and riding position, and you’ll have the chance to test ride all the FERN bikes available at the shop.

We’ll also do an in-house bike fitting session on our Calfee sizing machine and talk through literally every part and bolt of your new bicycle. Fit, handling, components, luggage and paint—it all belongs to the same conversation.

We can also arrange a visit to our painter at Velociao to explore your paint ideas, and a meeting with Kristin from Gramm Tourpacking to talk about custom bags and how to make them work perfectly with your build.

By the end of the day, we’ll have worked through all the details together and built a clear picture of your custom FERN bike.

I’ll carefully review all the data we’ve gathered so far and bring your riding position, components and ideas together in the design of your very own custom FERN bicycle. Geometry, tubing, clearances and all those small details need to work as one complete bike.

You’ll receive an updated quotation based on our latest conversations, and I’ll draw up different proposals to explore what your new bicycle could look like. We’ll work through these together until the whole idea feels right.

Once we’ve agreed on the direction, it’s time to move from the drawing to the workbench and finally build your bike. A bicycle made for you, for the roads you love and for the journeys still to come.