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Bridge Bike Works

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Toronto company that hand-lays, cures, and paints its Surveyor carbon road and gravel frames in its own facility, one of the few carbon bike frame makers building in Canada.

Toronto, ON CA · www.bridgebikeworks.com

86.1
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Bridge Bike Works is a Toronto company, co-founded and privately held by Frank Gairdner and Mike Yakubowicz, that hand-lays, cures, and paints its Surveyor carbon frames and forks in its own Toronto facility. Complete builds pair that frame with drivetrain and wheel components from Japanese, American, and Italian suppliers, and the country of origin of the carbon prepreg and epoxy itself is not disclosed.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's terms of service name the operating entity as Bridge Bike Works Inc., governed by the laws of Canada, and the team page credits Frank Gairdner and Mike Yakubowicz as co-founders with no outside investor mentioned. A federal Corporations Canada search for the name returned no results, consistent with a provincial (Ontario) incorporation; the Ontario Business Registry, where the significant-control register would be checked, returns a bot challenge to automated fetches, so that step could not be completed.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor describes an in-house build process at its own 8,200 sq ft Toronto composites facility: cutting its own tooling and laminate schedule, hand-laying pre-preg carbon, curing in a 50-ton heated press, and finishing, painting, and assembling every frame, fork, and complete bike there. No contract manufacturing or second facility is disclosed.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Every named employee on the team page, from engineering through production and lamination, is attached to the Toronto facility, and no other office or team location is mentioned anywhere on the site.

  • The Bridge Team · the vendor's own site “Thanos Drivas - Lead Engineer”

Inputs

7.5 inferred

CA 5% · EU 20% · other 30% · US 45%

The vendor's components page names Shimano (Japan), SRAM and ENVE (both US), Vittoria and Silca (Italy), and Wolf Tooth (US) as the drivetrain, wheel, tire, and accessory suppliers for complete builds; the mix weights those brand headquarters and leaves a small Canadian share for finishing materials. The country of origin of the carbon pre-preg and epoxy used in the frame itself is not disclosed anywhere on the site and could not be verified.

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