The Next Generation
The new range is an overhaul of everything we could improve: structurally, in how the bikes are built, and in how you order one. Some minor tweaks sit alongside some major updates, and new interactive tools make the ordering process more transparent.
The pictures on this page are renders of the production design: a Fosse in raw titanium, with the standard ENVE fork.
- Increased modularity. A wider range of build options that maximises third-party component compatibility.
- The aero features of our aero focussed bikes, combined with the ride quality our round-tubed bikes are famed for.
- Drivetrain efficiency. A big focus, and where the watts actually go, with stiffness where it matters.
- Proper material interfaces, making the bikes as easy to live with as possible for years to come.
Easier to live with day to day, whilst stepping up the performance that can meaningfully be stepped up.
A sneak peek at the details
One focus has been the little annoyances that come with living with a titanium bike. The thru-axles and the seatpost clamp use phosphor-bronze threads and bushes, where titanium frames have historically been prone to seizing.
Our own stem, and part of the frame kit. The size selector helps you choose the right length, angle and spacers.
ENVE's carbon IN-Route fork comes as standard: the Road version on Fosse, the Gravel version on Drove. The headset uses Enduro bearings, which have a lifetime warranty.
Set by the fork: up to 700×35mm tyres on Fosse and 700×50mm on Drove, as ENVE rates its IN-Route Road and Gravel forks. The titanium fork coming in 2027 adds a little more.
Part of the frame kit, with 0, 10 or 20mm of setback.
Drivetrain efficiency was a big focus of the redesign. This is where the watts actually go.
Shown in raw titanium with the large logo. Every design and colour is in the finishing selector.
The frame
From CAD to metal
These are the seat stay yokes for Fosse and Drove, machined here in Somerset with the model's name cut into each one.
A UK brand and a UK-made frame aren't the same thing. Every Sturdy frame is designed, engineered, machined, fabricated and finished in Somerset. Not designed here and made somewhere else.
Worth asking any frame maker
- Where is it machined? Here, in our workshop.
- Where is it welded? Here, by us.
- Can I visit? Yes, by appointment.
Built to be modular
The change you'll notice first is modularity.
The current bikes are very much a single-specification concept: you choose the size and the finish, and the rest is fairly fixed. The new frames separate the parts that have to be bespoke from the parts that don't, so you decide where the budget goes. A wider range of build specs, and upgrade paths that don't mean a new frame.
The fork is a good example. A titanium fork is beautiful, and expensive. A carbon fork on the same frame drops the kit price substantially without meaningfully touching the geometry or the fit. Our current bikes need our own titanium fork. The new generation uses an ENVE IN-Route fork by default, with a titanium upgrade option that adds a little tyre clearance coming in 2027.
A Sturdy frame kit now starts at a price comparable to a top-tier frameset from any of the big names. That isn't something we've been able to say before.
All whilst being designed, engineered, machined, fabricated, finished and assembled under one roof here in Somerset. One at a time.
Two models
Same concept, two bikes: Fosse is road focussed and Drove is gravel focussed. The geometry and tyre clearance change; the rest doesn't. Drove shares Fosse's layout, with a longer chainstay and fork, so the renders on this page stand in for both.
Eighteen sizes of each: top tubes from 490 to 590mm, and every nominal size in Low, Medium and Tall stack.
The drawing is a Fosse M and a Drove M, both in Medium stack, from the geometry comparison.
Design your own finish in the finishing selector
Compare geometry
Finishing selector
Size selector