Wittson Custom Ti Cycles
Wittson Cycles is a Northern European handmade bicycle manufacturer located in Klaipėda, Klaipeda, Lithuania. Wittson works exclusively with titanium and sources the European Grade 9 tubes from Baltic neighbor Sweden and the VSMPO Titan Scandinavia corporation, which also supplies aerospace luminaries Boeing and Airbus. Wittson uses 3/2.5 Ti for their frame production, and 6/4 Ti, which has greater tensile strength but is much harder to weld, for dropouts and bottom bracket shells, along with smaller bits such as brake cable stops. History Wittson Custom Ti Cycles was founded by a famous Lithuanian pro cyclist and the coach of first, independent Lithuanian National Cycling Team Vidmantas Zukauskas. In the mid 90s Vidmantas has combined his cycling and coaching experience to start building titanium bicycle frames for such companies as Colnago, Van Tuyl, Argon 18, Argon18, Red Bull and many others. Later on his son Mindaugas joined him and so the name Wittson was born. Vidmantas a ...
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