Repair. Reuse. Resist Waste.
I’m Paul Gibson, framebuilder at Ellis Briggs Cycles in Shipley, Yorkshire.
I work in a 1930s workshop full of old tools, steel tubes and second-hand wisdom.
Everything you see here still works.
That’s the point.
Projects & Paths
🔧 The Workshop
– framebuilding, restorations, and honest repairs.
📹 YouTube – The Craft Lives On
– short films showing how we keep the flame lit.
🛠 Patreon
– support the documentation, training and apprenticeships that protect endangered skills.
✍️ Substack
– essays about craft, culture and the politics of making.
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I don’t build bikes for landfill or for fashion.
I repair what’s worth saving, reuse what others overlook, and make new frames only when they’re needed — built to be repaired again in fifty years’ time.
Because the most sustainable bike isn’t a new one.
It’s the one you already have, brought back to life.
What Drives the Work
Repair & Reuse – keeping steel on the road, not in the skip.
Anti-Consumerism – owning less, understanding more.
Environment – local making, small footprint, long life.
Heritage as Practice – craft that adapts, not freezes.
Education – passing real skills to the next hands.
This isn’t nostalgia.
It’s resistance to throwaway culture.
Why It Matters
Framebuilding is classed as an Endangered British Craft.
So is patience, attention, and care.
But they don’t have to disappear.
If you believe that making and mending is more radical than buying again,
you’re already part of what I’m trying to do.
Build things that last. Fix what you can. Teach what you know.
→ Visit the Workshop | Join on Patreon | Read on Substack | Watch on YouTube
