Who Is Tom
Over the last 33 years, Tom Teesdale has quietly been building some of the finest frames in America. With feedback from riders as diverse as seasoned racers and recreational tourists, Tom knows the variety of riding characteristics people want, and builds his bikes accordingly. Tom works with both steel and aluminum tube sets from True Temper, Columbus and Easton. All frames are available built from either material, including the tandem.
Teesdale specializes in air-hardened steel tubing. This tubing is made especially for today’s popular TIG welding process which actually strengthens the tubing during the heating process. Resulting in exceptional durability and lightweight.
For those who prefer the feel of Aluminum, Teesdale offers the finest from Easton. Oversize tubes make for lightweight and lateral rigidity.
Teesdale frames are made to be ridden… and ridden hard. His road frames hold up to the punishment of crit riding as well as the loading and unloading that goes with a summer of racing or touring. Off road riders punish their bikes even more, and Teesdales are built to take it.
Past Work – T.E.T. Cycles / Tom Teesdale
Established in 1976 Custom builder of all types of cycle frames.
Fisher Competition – (we built almost all of these two models)
Mt Tam 82-89 – first Tange Prestige/ fillet brazed
Mt Tam 89 – first os headset and ox2 oversized tubing
Comp 83-89 – prestige/fillet brazed
Gemini Tandem – prototype and first fillet brazed production run.
Marin Team issue - 89-90 True Temper/Tig welded
Quintana Roo Superform – One of the first production runs with Excel tubing fillet brazed over tig weld Prestige. First of the Tri steep seat design. Two color spatter paint-Imron.
Brave Racing Cycles 89-92 – (tig welded) elevated stay tig design/co-designed geometry.
prototyped and production of many innovative designs.
Bicycle Group 1990-95
Kona “Hot” production and custom frames. Tange Prestige Concept/Ultimate Tig Welded.
Kona 94 Haole – Prestige tig welded Road frame production.
Barracuda – Design the original product, set sizes-geometry-tubing selection. Built the original four prototypes.
Terry Precision – Produced a small number of lugged custom Terry’s.
Univega/Lawee 93 – ShockBloc 8.5 rear suspension frame tig welded/0X3 tubing/lmron paint.
Yokota Halfdome 93 – tig welded Columbus Nivacrome .7/.4/.7 EL OS Imron 5000 paint.
Giordana Jaguarundi - tig welded/ Columbus Max OR Imron splatter paint.
Bicycle Research and Design – Tri Bikes of various wheel sizes.
Technosport - Tri/Trac and Road frames.
Tantrum Cycles - bmx style frames for Mt biking.
VooDoo Canzo – 1995 production of the Joe Murray designed unified rear suspension frame (steel).
Dirt Research – MTB and Cyclocross frames.
Prototype design and building of the Corbin Recumbent and the Ken Keyes shaft drive cycle.
Jamis DragonFly 1996 – Production supply for the Aermet hardtail mtb.
Jamis FireDragon 1996 – Production supply for the 853 hardtail mtb.
Design and building the Newsense Yellow Mushroom Easton MTB’s.
Dean USA – Tange Prestige Jester mtb and Dean Road frames.
We build frames of all types under the TET name.