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Welcome to our new website! We have updated our pages, our photos, and information. This will make it much easier for everyone to navigate. Our Instagram page is Also now

Apart from the aero handlebars, in this photo you can see the aerobar upstands, and the mounts for the aerobars.

Now we are getting somewhere. Fork tips attached.

Starting to look like a proper fork, the legs are attached to the crown.

The bullets will form the back of the handlebar section.

Ready to shape/add the fork tip

Checking the profile of the fork leg. Obviously aluminium can not necessarily be shaped to exactly imitate the carbon fibre. The main focus was on the aero shape, front to

Detail of fork crown and steerer tube, having been threaded

Laid out are the fork crown/steerer tube, fork legs, a,d handlebars (2 sets were being made).

Trial fit of the Hotta fork on the Lotus. This fork is the basis of our integrated fork/handlebars.

They say that a good paint job can hide multiple sins- I prefer to say a stunning paint job compliments a stunning build.Was this painted in a state of the

So, how do you recreate something you have never seen in person, don’t have measurements for, and are uncertain of exactly how it’s built.Well, you give it a crack. From

With the frame complete, the question was, how do you replicate rare parts. The seat post topper- fortunately, with my English Lotus frame, I received 2 seat post toppers. The

My good friend Graeme Pearson, has been building bikes for nearly 40 years, and for the most part, using carbon fibre. I have Graeme’s first carbon fibre bike, from 1986,

There is nothing like getting a build finished, but this project has now been going for longer than 2 years, so it’s not going to get rushed now.I have worked

So, the ‘problem’, is that this frame, is one of the original 56 bikes, built by DPS composites, in England. (6 prototypes, and 50 further frames for Team Lotus).With these

In September 1996, Chris Boardman rode an Aerodyne (South African) built Lotus 110 (badged as an Eddy Merckx) to a world record of 56.375km in one hour. To this day,

So why did I want to build a replica of this bike? Back when the Lotus 108 and Lotus 110 came to be, we never saw them in New Zealand.

It goes without saying, that the sum of the expertise that was called on for this build is incredible.I could not have turned my dream into reality, without the help

We are pleased to announce that Forza Bikes is now collaborating with FiftyOne Bikes in Dublin, Ireland, to bring their custom built road frames, and factory built gravel frames to

I am very pleased to announce that Forza Cycleworks is now open with regular hours of 10am to 3pm every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. You can continue to visit

Forza Cycleworks is open for business in our new premises!! The workshop and museum is open every Thursday and Friday, and the first Saturday of each month, although I will