Ranger-3

Ranger-3 has specialised in steel bikes for about 15 years. The biggest advantage of a steel touring bike in my mind is that you can easily repair and modify the frames. Let’s say you drop your bike and a rock damages the top tube – that individual steel tube can be replaced by an experienced frame builder.

The steel tubes of this frame are manufactured from raw materials in Taiwan, and it’s welded together there as well. This is actually quite unusual as raw materials, tube processing, manufacturing and painting often end up happening all over the world, resulting in a higher carbon footprint for a bike.