New Holdsworth 2015 Heritage range

[jules_b]

So it looks like Holdsworth have just released their 2015 Heritage range - http://holdsworth-bikes.com/frames/

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... amp;type=1

The Cyclone, Mistral, Zephyr and Professional are all back and look pretty good. I am a long time Holdsworth fan and glad to see them up and running again although it does seem they are playing on a heritage of a company with no real connections to the current one.

The White Professional looks especially nice but no wraparound lugs!

What do people reckon?

 

[Spokesmann]

Expect 'Heritages' prices too.

 

[NeilM]

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Clever marketing.

Didn't Planet X buy Holdsworth last year?

It will be interesting to see what the frames look like and see how they ride.

 

[jules_b]

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I did not know that about planet x! If you go on the Facebook page link above you can see the frames.

 

[Old Ned]

Re: Re:

Clever marketing.

Didn't Planet X buy Holdsworth last year?

It will be interesting to see what the frames look like and see how they ride.

That's why the website says that they are available from Planet X.

 

[jules_b]

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Saw that but thought they were just a preferred distributor.

 

[MrW]

The Holdsworth name is owned by the Tandem Group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Group

 

[NeilM]

The Holdsworth name is owned by the Tandem Group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Group

It was owned by Tandem, Planet X bought it and all the stock. I remember seeing them selling of the limited production steel bikes at half the original price.

Press speculation says the new frame will be around £799, they are being launched at L'Eroica Britannia.

 

[Goldie]

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There's a lot to love here I think. In no particular order:
- lashings of 531. A well established framebuilder told me a few years ago he was having trouble getting hold of it from Reynolds. It can only be a good thing if more frames are being built out of this incredible stuff;
- Ed Smith, the brand manager at Falcon / Tandem who masterminded 2011's Holdsworth Professional, seems to be on board. I would have preferred it if the Professional's framw had been built in Britain, but I can't argue with the eye for detail with which it was constructed - which is presumably down to Mr Smith.
- the fact that its Holdsworth. I'm too young to have seen Holdswrth doing its thing first hand, but I associate the brand with a pleasing mix of slightly po faced technical competence and quiet extravagance in colour schemes and detailing.Both of which are present and correct here.

It'd be easy to be cynical. But this is on a totally different level to the usual token Reynolds 520 and brown pleather saddle "retro" offering that plenty of bike firms chuck out.

 

[Midlife]

Yep, I have no problem with what they are doing........seems all up front and if people want to buy the frames then as long as they have the cash OK.

From a personal point of view I hate the campagnolo / Holdsworth fret work on the frames........

Shaun