The GOTHICA is the fruit of Francis Quillon, Cyfac's founder, and his love for history and architecture. Long an admirer of the cathedrals peppered throughout Cyfac's Loire Valley home, Monsieur Quillon marveled at the flying buttresses, pointed arches, and ogive shapes characterising Gothic architecture. The GOTHICA frameset honors this same spirit, attention-to-detail, master craftsmanship, and avant-garde construction.

Using the most-advanced carbon fiber available, Toray 800H, paired with the world's leading 1K fine-braid carbon fiber weave, Cyfac scrimps on no detail in the design, fabrication, and finish of the Gothica. The industry standard is 1 layer of carbon weave at joint intersections. Cyfac uses 3. IM carbon fiber tube sections receive a layer of Kevlar-weave support at all tube junctions. A second layer of multi-directional carbon fiber is applied to ellicit the desired properties for stiffness, compliancy, and bottom bracket reactivity. A 3rd layer of unidirectional 1k carbon fiber completes the process to provide additional vibration dampening, strength, durability, and a beautiful finish. Each Gothica takes more than 30 hours to produce.

The GOTHICA is designed to deliver reactivity, comfort, and high performance in a superbly beautiful package. 100% hand-made, featuring the highest grade of carbon fibre that, frankly, most builders do not choose to use as they pass off a lower grade of carbon on their customers, Cyfac offers a frame of uncompromised quality and style.

Frames are dynamic. As such, there should be some flexibility/movement to one because, when done correctly, this increases the reactivity of the frame, boosts efficiency, and improves performance. A rider who is on the wrong frame cannot elicit the dynamic nature of the frame correctly and will suffer a negative impact on performance/comfort/efficiency.