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Tailored design & development solutions for the cycle sports market. DISCOVER, DEFINE, DESIGN, DELIVER.

With over a decade of experience, Redburn Design offers an innovative design, development and delivery service for products and brands within the cycle industry.

05/03/2026

Rocker development on the lugged trail frame project.
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25/02/2026

Recently I’ve been observing a whole new world of experimentation by students, hobbyists and racers who have their own ideas and visions on what a modern MTB should be.

Not only what it should be, but how it could or should be produced.

It’s no surprise that the cycle industry has and is still going through some challenging times, and you can either hide away and complain about it, or listen, learn and adapt.

Experimentation has always been a big part of cycling for me, from my very early days of racing XC around the local BMX track, to expressing myself through the art of BMX.

As I grew and developed into MTB as a young teenager learning about this new world of mechanical engineering and design, my days were spent with endless experimentation as I tried to figure out how bikes were made and how all of the components interacted together to create a finished product.

Back then there was no unlimited resource like YouTube, no forums full of other bike designers, no super fast 3D printers to help you hold in your hand and visualize just what you had spent the day modeling .

We had to raw dog it and learn from our own mistakes. It was painfully slow, sometimes costly, but always enjoyable and it only served to fuel our desire to experiment further and try again to be better.

To all those young engineers learning their craft and creating bikes that are so much more technically advanced and refined than my 18 year old self could ever have dreamed of… I salute you 🫡

The resources you have on tap in 2026 is unrivaled, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy!

Enjoy the journey, keep talking and sharing and communicating with other likeminded enthusiasts.

Here’s to the craft bike industry and all of what it brings in the near future 👌🚴💨

18/02/2026

When did storage requirements begin to overtake performance on every clients design brief?

How critical is it today to have integrated storage space on your MTB frame and what are you willing to compromise in order to have it?

07/02/2026

update 1.210 brought updates to surface analysis.
I’m loving how it three constant updates keep adding to the functionality and ease of use that this software offers when it comes to product development.

05/02/2026

April 2019

I was in Taiwan for production inspection of the new Forbidden Druid, and development of some new aluminum gravel frames for what went on to become Fustle.

Having travelled back and forth to Taiwan regularly since 2012 I had always wanted to take my wife with me to see the country and meet the amazing people that had helped me as I built a career in bicycle product development.

We travelled around Taipei City for a few days and visited the Cycle Show before heading south on the HSR to Taichung.

We spent a couple of days in the Taichung area visiting suppliers, choosing paint finishes, checking on pilot run assembly and enjoying everything the city had to offer.

29/01/2026

60 second surface modelling snippets 👀

As with most approaches to CAD modeling, there is no “one size fits all” approach.
The most common request recently has been around surface modeling, so thought I’d post this super short example of how you might approach surfacing a head tube junction using

With surfacing I find you get out what you put in, and often the longer you spend on your surfaces, smoother the finished parts will be, but for the purposes of getting started, in my experience, it’s ok for things to be imperfect at the beginning. That’s how you learn, and gives you a mark in the sand that you can develop your skills on and improve with time.

Comment down below if you found this helpful 👍

20/01/2026

A simple 3 piece rocker linkage for a client who needed to produce proof of principle frames in-house and wanted a CNC machined linkage to marry the front and rear triangles together matching their desired kinematics.

17/01/2026

This was the early stages of a project in collaboration with a UK component manufacturer who wanted to develop their own frameset to be manufactured in house within their CNC workshop.

Initially briefed to be machined in 2 halves, much like many other CNC machines frames of late, with the rear triangle and linkage parts nested inside the front triangle to reduce waste.

The client later went on to revise the design and manufacturing process to split the frame into sections and weld together.

Unfortunately market conditions were changing and the project has still not reached production, potentially it never will.

Modeled using

16/01/2026

Are you a keen CAD user and interested in learning bicycle design?
Perhaps you already use but are looking for some hints and tips on how to speed up your design workflow.

This Fundamentals course has been developed to walk you through each step from very beginner through to a competent user capable of modeling parametric rigid bicycle frames and acts as a great basis to start your bicycle design journey.

Link in bio to register interest or download the course today.

14/01/2026

A fun project with Paul Aston a while back. Paul wanted a stem that could be adjusted for length and height to help with consistent bike testing.

It turns out he had visualized something a little more industrial than this. I think his words were “a block of cheese with holes everywhere” or something like that. 🧀

11/01/2026

Marin Bikes approached me and asked if I could turn their vision for the ultimate adjustable chassis into a reality.

The Alpine Trail can be configured for 12 different geometries through the use of interchangeable headset cups and rear triangle adjustments, lowering and raising the BB, slackened and steepening the head tube, and growing the Chainstay length.

Oh, plus they wanted them to all work in unison to negate any undesirable byproducts.

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