We recently had another nice addition to our French family come through the door at LifecycleUK. The Cyfac Zona is the entry level steel frame that the Loire valley company produce. It is accompanied with a full carbon fork and that is where the standard options end and the customisation begins.
Every steel frame is a custom made to measure finish that can be painted any colour the customer requires. This model is 100% brazed steel and can have any number of options from additional bottle bosses to press in or integrated headsets.
Paint is also something that the French brand pride themselves on. The Zona has 5 colour patterns available with infinite colour combinations and two additional designs available for £150 up-lift. Cyfac also offer the CDS system (Cyfac Design Studio). Information fed to Cyfac will result in a one off colour design specially for you. This is the route that we went down when creating the XCR frame set for the shop (pictured below.)
The concept of the Zona build was comfort. The steel frame has such beautiful properties that we didn't want to hide through huge amounts of carbon or stiff harsh wheels. We decided that it would be rude to put anything else but a Campagnolo Athena group set on the Zona and so we opted for the 52/36 carbon chain set and a wide range cassette making it as fast on the flats of Norfolk as the hills of a major sportive.
Hand built wheels were added for additional comfort thus cue to Campagnolo Record 32H hubs. Super smooth bearing hubs built onto Ambrosio Evolution rims. Keeping the classic finish to the bike we added a classic drop bar by 3T and married it up to the matching stem and seat post to complete the build. 18.5 lbs later this sportive killer was complete. The result is a classic, timeless bike finished to an amazingly high standard.
Below are a few pics of the finished article...enjoy....
