July 2025, Louis Darricades, business manager at Milc, met Victor, the founder of Vélos RACINE, at the Eurobike 2025 edition. This marks the start of our collaboration to create the prototype of the brand’s first bike.
We worked with the brand on the prototyping part. Their project: designing a made in France, durable and affordable bike.
Prototyping is essential to test and validate the suitability of the product before it goes into pilot run or mass production. We check ergonomics, performance, and ease of assembly. Since 2013, prototyping has been a clear component of Milc’s DNA.
Victor came to visit Milc’s factory, but especially to fetch the first prototype of his bike’s frame at the end of January. Milc produced the frame and fork prototypes for this project.
Under the guidance of Louis for two days, Victor was able to witness the final welding operations on the frame, to see the final technical adjustments and painting, before leaving with the prototype for Strasbourg.
A warm thank you to Victor, who highlighted the technical skills and expertise of our team, with Laurent Garrigues and Cosme de Becdelievre, for the welding part. Maël Azema worked on the process part.
To discover behind-the-scenes, see here.
Photo credits: Victor DEWEERDT – Vélos RACINE