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Cyfac becomes Maison Cyfac, bringing Meral and CMT together around custom bikes

Taken over in April, Tours-area frame builder Cyfac becomes Maison Cyfac, joins forces with Meral and CMT, goes 100% custom and prepares to move to Tours.

Cyfac becomes Maison Cyfac, bringing Meral and CMT together around custom bikes
Archive photo: brazing a steel frame at Cyfac. Cyfac / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

IN BRIEF

Taken over in April 2026 by Jean-Pierre Ramoul, the Tours-area frame builder Cyfac is becoming Maison Cyfac. The new entity brings together three brands: Cyfac for carbon, Meral for steel and CMT for titanium. The official website states that bikes are made exclusively to order, custom-built, from €6,500 for a complete bike. The company is set to leave its historic site in Hommes and move to the Tours metropolitan area in late 2026 or early 2027.


Six months after its takeover, Cyfac is changing its name and its direction. The frame builder from Indre-et-Loire is becoming Maison Cyfac, a house that brings together three brands and three materials, and is preparing to relocate.


Maison Cyfac: three brands, three materials

The official website presents Maison Cyfac as the grouping of the Meral (steel), Cyfac (carbon) and CMT (titanium) brands. Its new owner, Jean-Pierre Ramoul, explains the choice, quoted by InfoRadar:

“We are now called Maison Cyfac, because we want to mark a fresh start. We are bringing together three brands: Cyfac and Méral, specialists in carbon and steel, as well as CMT, a titanium specialist. They will now work closely together.”

Jean-Pierre Ramoul, new owner of Cyfac

The brand’s website highlights a custom bike handmade by its craftsmen, with a custom geometry, a personalised paint finish and a build to order. Bikes are made exclusively to order, from €6,500 for a complete bike.

A craftsman works on the rear triangle of a bicycle frame on a workbench
Archive photo: a frame builder at work in the Cyfac workshop. Eric Sakalowsky / Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Leaving Hommes for the Tours metropolitan area

InfoRadar reports that the company plans to move to the Tours metropolitan area at the end of 2026 or the start of 2027, without yet having given the address of the future workshop and showroom. The new owner said that the six employees currently based in Hommes will join this new workshop.

The merger also concerns CMT, already based in the Alps, where a showroom is also planned, InfoRadar adds.

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