Tunk Times #12
December 2025
Greetings from Tunk HQ. The days are short, dark and wet. The nights are long, dark and wet.
But activity here is greater than ever before! Every day we are prepping and packing frames, going thru emails, fixing stuff and decorating the office and workshop, building the webshop. And between it all discussing future plans, new products, business strategies, life and other random stuff.
Preordered frames have mostly all been delivered and it is super exciting to soon see some pictures of customers' bikes! Another great step in making the original idea become reality. The encouraging emails and good wishes from our first customers provide light and warmth that the current weather is lacking.
The webshop is now open to the public and it is interesting to see how the frames will sell. It is certainly not the best time of the year to be introducing a bike frame to the market, but we are quite confident that they will keep trickling out. Now there are big FORT branded cardboard boxes full of frames and forks everywhere here like you can see in the picture! It’s kinda cozy but we’d rather see them fly the nest.
One of the biggest open questions is ordering the next batch of frames. When to order, how many frames, do we want to change something and so on are on the table. The delivery time is six months from the date of order. We wouldn’t want to hurry with ordering, but to get feedback, see what sizes sell most and think everything through of course. But of course we would also need some product to sell once these run out.
We are also trying to finalize the order of stems and racks from Fort. But they seem to be very busy, like people tend to be right before Christmas. These will have approximately a four month delivery time, as they dont have special materials like the framesets do.
The rim order mentioned in Tunk Times #11 is also now a reality. We have ordered 100 pieces of Alexrims “Adventure 2” rims in the 650B/584 size. It is a shallow profile, medium-width tubeless ready rim-brake compatible rim. In a low-key grey finish, not polished. The retail price will be around 40-50€ per piece, which sounds very reasonable. They should be ready in January and the sea journey from Taiwan should take around 2 months, so we expect to have them in early spring.
Feel free to send us any comments, wishes, ideas or questions. And for the locals, we are open for visits on most working days. Email us beforehand if youre coming from furter away to avoid disappointment, our office hours are not yet set in stone.
Until next time
Tunk Crew
