Wyndymilla Massive Attack SL £9,000 | 6.69 Kg

James Bracey rides the UK custom carbon specialist’s lightweight climber

- James Bracey

The WyndyMilla Massive Attack SL has been devised with one goal in mind, to be the ultimate companion in the mountains. It’s a breath of fresh air in a cycling world filled with angular tubed ‘aero’ race bikes thanks in the main to a traditional round tubed double diamond frame design and an emphasis on the super light. It certainly cuts a profile that you can’t help but admire for its elegant simplicity.

Frame

The frame is obviously the beating heart of the Massive Attack SL and the crucial part of the custom element of WyndyMilla’s USP. Before you get your hands on a frame WyndyMilla takes you through a full gamut of customisation steps to ensure you end up with the perfect frameset (and build) that suits you and your riding. The process starts with an online questionnaire to ascertain cycling history, existing issues and the types of riding you focus on. A full bike fit then needs to be completed at WyndyMilla’s Surrey HQ in order to gather the information to customise the frame to your body shape, strengths and limitations. And it is a full customisation job, not just little tweaks to a couple of the tubes. All frame tube sizing, carbon layup and geometry can be adjusted to get the perfect fit and bespoke levels of stiffness and ride handling. At this point the fun starts and you can create the finished look of your frame with the help of WyndyMilla’s in-house paintshop. Included in the price is the first tier paint and graphic option but for small additional costs you can go pretty wild.