I find the right factories, in Asia and in Europe, and take your product all the way to production: specifications, prototypes, tooling, negotiation and quality follow-up. Twenty years of manufacturing frames, wheels and electronics for my own brands and for others.
My core expertise covers the stages where a bike or accessory project is won or lost: choosing the manufacturer, defining the product and moving it into production. For the rest of the project, I bring my experience running bike brands and my network.
Find the factory that can make your product, at the right price and on time.
Turn your idea into a technical package a factory can quote and build.
Go from an approved sample to a compliant series, delivered on time.
One clear need, one clear deliverable, a few weeks.
identify and qualify three factories for a carbon gravel frame, with quotes compared.
I run the product from requirements to first production.
launching a private-label bike range for a retailer.
Outsourced technical director or buyer, a few days a month.
managing suppliers and developments for a brand with no in-house engineering team.
You work directly with the engineer doing the job. No project manager in between.
Your product, target retail price, volumes and timeline.
Factory shortlist, requests for quotation, costed comparison.
Samples, testing, corrections to the technical file.
Tooling, quality approval, standards compliance.
Manufacturing follow-up, inspections, delivery coordination.
Building a bike brand for online retailer Probikeshop, as a contractor.
Design and industrialization of standalone GPS trackers, from circuit board to series production.
High-end carbon bikes, handcrafted in Italy, around a hundred frames a year.
Bike brand founded and run for six years: €3M annual revenue, 40% export, 10,000 bikes sold in five years.
A new range, a factory change, a frame to develop, without hiring a full-time engineer.
Launching a private label and needing someone who knows the factories.
Connected devices, lighting, locks, trackers: from electronic prototype to series production.
Tell me about your project in a few lines: product, volumes, timeline. I will reply within 48 hours with a first assessment and a proposal.
Based in Gap, French Alps. Factory visits in Asia and Europe. English and French.