gregorywells
Member
After reading varying reviews of Walty frames and the order process, I thought I'd share my own personal experience now my bike build is complete.
I decided I wanted to build a gravel titanium bike and having looked around a fair bit and checked out all the more well-known brands, I kept stumbling upon Waltly. I was nervous to order something of such value from a fairly unknown company from China but the savings compared to stock frames was just too much for me to ignore. The other key things for me is I have fairly short legs but longer upper body so most stock frames leave me needing me to adjust various stock parts just to make each bike fit.
Having originally thought I could order everything myself I soon realised I was really out of my depth when it came to frame geometry. I knew I wanted a endurance style frame with more relaxed geometry then a racing frame with clearance for 40mm tyres but I had no idea how to reflect that in the frame measurements/specs. This is when I decided to consult Wei, a guy who did a bike fit for me a few years back. For £80 he created a cad drawing based on my original measurements reflecting all my requirements and helped me through the order form.
With a final CAD drawing and complete order form, I contacted Waltly who swiftly replied with a few questions (what chain ring, axle etc) and following that quoted me £810 for the frame + delivery (no forks). I nervously paid the deposit via AliBaba (1/2 the total) and that was it for a while. Around a month later a few more questions come in re which forks intend to use. Following that I finally got an email saying my frame was ready (took around 2 in total) along with some photos. Frame looked amazing, welding was neat and everything looked perfect as far as I could see.
The frame arrived around 10 days later well-packaged and in perfect condition. The frame included a seat post clamp + rear thru axle (142).
Overall the process was very positive. Waltly were efficient, stuck to their proposed deadline and the quality of their work is very high. Having read a few other peoples experience of ordering from Waltly, I feel a lot of the problems arise from sizing/questions about geometry and answers being lost in translation. By having CAD drawing from day one, I was able to bypass a lot of these issues and skip straight to the final order stages.
I've attached a photo of my build, super happy with how its turned out. It really is my dream bike and I can't stop smirking when I ride it.
Hope this is helpful, more than happy to answer any questions for those considering ordering from a custom ti frame or using Waltly.
I decided I wanted to build a gravel titanium bike and having looked around a fair bit and checked out all the more well-known brands, I kept stumbling upon Waltly. I was nervous to order something of such value from a fairly unknown company from China but the savings compared to stock frames was just too much for me to ignore. The other key things for me is I have fairly short legs but longer upper body so most stock frames leave me needing me to adjust various stock parts just to make each bike fit.
Having originally thought I could order everything myself I soon realised I was really out of my depth when it came to frame geometry. I knew I wanted a endurance style frame with more relaxed geometry then a racing frame with clearance for 40mm tyres but I had no idea how to reflect that in the frame measurements/specs. This is when I decided to consult Wei, a guy who did a bike fit for me a few years back. For £80 he created a cad drawing based on my original measurements reflecting all my requirements and helped me through the order form.
With a final CAD drawing and complete order form, I contacted Waltly who swiftly replied with a few questions (what chain ring, axle etc) and following that quoted me £810 for the frame + delivery (no forks). I nervously paid the deposit via AliBaba (1/2 the total) and that was it for a while. Around a month later a few more questions come in re which forks intend to use. Following that I finally got an email saying my frame was ready (took around 2 in total) along with some photos. Frame looked amazing, welding was neat and everything looked perfect as far as I could see.
The frame arrived around 10 days later well-packaged and in perfect condition. The frame included a seat post clamp + rear thru axle (142).
Overall the process was very positive. Waltly were efficient, stuck to their proposed deadline and the quality of their work is very high. Having read a few other peoples experience of ordering from Waltly, I feel a lot of the problems arise from sizing/questions about geometry and answers being lost in translation. By having CAD drawing from day one, I was able to bypass a lot of these issues and skip straight to the final order stages.
I've attached a photo of my build, super happy with how its turned out. It really is my dream bike and I can't stop smirking when I ride it.
Hope this is helpful, more than happy to answer any questions for those considering ordering from a custom ti frame or using Waltly.
