About Victoire Cycles
Victoire Cycles is a company created in 2011 by a group of friends from different cycling horizons. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, we make bespoke steel frames as well as components machined in aluminium alloy. Our products are made for every cycling disciplines, from road to mountain bike, including urban bicycles and fixed gear.
A lost savoir-faire
During the last twenty years, frame builders have disappeared gradually. Nowadays, they have been replaced with mass-production bicycles, performant but impersonal. That’s why we offer to our customers high-end bespoke products, to fit to their morphology and their riding. We combine the frame builder savoir-faire of yesteryear with the most modern technologies thanks to the use of specific tools developed internally.
Local partners for a made in France approach
The Auvergne region has a high industrial expertise that allows us to work mainly with local companies. We also chose this proximity for ethical, economic and ecological reasons. It allows us to be very reactive and to have an optimal monitoring of our production.
A great region to develop our products
We are very connected to our region, the Auvergne, in France, which is a great location for cycling. Auvergne, and more particularly the Puy de Dôme, is famous in cycling culture for the duel between Anquetil and Poulidor in Tour de France 1964. We ride daily on road and trails around our workshop to test and develop our products.
(from left to right)
- Matthieu Perrusset: marketing and communication manager
- He writes the story of your bike. He is in charge of the brand communication and side projects. He also takes part into products development.
- He writes the story of your bike. He is in charge of the brand communication and side projects. He also takes part into products development.
- Romain Thouin: frame builder
- He is in charge of the whole manufacturing of the frame: machining, welding and finishing.
- He is in charge of the whole manufacturing of the frame: machining, welding and finishing.
- Julien Leyreloup: company manager and co-founder
- He works on the fitting and the final specifications of your bike. He will then design the geometry of your bespoke bike and choose the tubing that fit the best your demands. After the paint, he will also mount your bike.
- He works on the fitting and the final specifications of your bike. He will then design the geometry of your bespoke bike and choose the tubing that fit the best your demands. After the paint, he will also mount your bike.
- Julien Devaux: sales manager.
- He is your first contact when you consider ordering a bespoke bike, and he will help you to build its specifications.
At Victoire Cycles, we give a lot mportance to this approach since our creation in january 2011. All our products are exclusively made in France, with raw materials mostly french.
Bespoke products
The handcrafted steel and stainless steel parts - frames, forks, stems and luggage-racks - are totally made in our workshop in Beaumont, France. They are made of steel or stainless steel tubing from Columbus (Italy), Reynolds (England), and Tange (Japan) known for their high quality products. The components like headset, bottom bracket or dropouts come from Paragon in the US. Tubing for stems and luggage-racks are french, like track bikes dropouts designed by Victoire. There are all fillet-brazed. All our raw materials for welding are made in France. Each tubing for handcrafted custom frame are prepared in our workshop
A civic-minded approach, but not only
This Made in France approach, responsible and civic-minded, support our national and local economy, and carry-on a lost french savoir-faire. Indeed, there were, decades ago, lots of frame builder in France. We want, through Victoire Cycles, perpetuate this tradition, bringing to it modern process.
Thanks to this production approach, we can control every steps of the conception. As a result, we can make unique products, just the opposite of actual large series on the market, to offer to each of our customers high quality bicycles, suited to their practice and their wishes.
It's very important for us to be transparent in our products manufacturing and the origin of different parts required to build them. That's why we want to collaborate with french brands and companies to carry-on knowledges and the economy. If our approach interest you and you want to know more about Victoire Cycles, we will be very happy to welcome you in our workshop in Clermont-Ferrand, France. You will be able to discover our products and our work.