Frame Resprays & Handmade Frames – Ellis Briggs
Keeping the Craft of Bicycle Framebuilding Alive
A Working Framebuilding Workshop Since 1936
Ellis Briggs has been making bicycles in Yorkshire since 1936. Nearly ninety years later, frames are still being built at the bench, old bicycles are still being brought back to life, and the skills behind them are being passed on.
This isn’t a museum. It’s a living workshop.
Handmade Frames
Steel Frames and Bicycles Made by Hand in Yorkshire
Workshop
A Living Bicycle Workshop in Shipley
Restoration
Restoring Important Bicycles for Another Generation
Frame Repairs
Traditional Steel Frame Repairs and Alterations
Why We Still Do It This Way
Traditional framebuilding is more than a way of joining steel tubes together. It is a skilled practice built on judgement, touch and experience, learnt through making and passed from one person to another.
Those skills are becoming increasingly rare. We believe they are worth practising, understanding and passing on.
Since 1936
A LIVING TRADITION
Ellis Briggs has been building bicycles in Yorkshire for nearly ninety years. Today the workshop still builds new steel frames, repairs and restores old ones, and passes the skills of traditional framebuilding on to others. Our history matters because the craft is still alive.
Writing & workshop notes
What is craft, really?
What if the difference isn’t in the object, but in how it comes into being?
What We Lost When We Stopped Making Things
Lessons from one of Britain’s last bicycle framebuilders
Have We Forgotten How to Form Human Capability?
Craft, apprenticeship, and the invisibility of practical intelligence