Dave Moulton
British cycle designer
Edward David Moulton (8 February 1936 – 4 May 2025) was a British custom bicycle frame builder and internet blogger based in the United States.
Dave Moulton studied at Luton Technical College in England and learned bicycle frame building from Albert "Pop" Hodge in Luton, beginning in 1957. He opened a frame-building business around 1975 in Worcester, England. In 1976, Paul Carbutt rode one of Moulton's bicycles in the Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The bike frames were marked with Moulton's name, "Dave Moulton" in large lower-case letters.
Moulton began receiving orders from the United States due to the increasing popularity of cycling as a sport and the scarcity of master frame-builders there. In 1979 Moulton emigrated to the United States and went to work for Vic and Mike Fraysse in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He built bicycles for them under the Paris Sport brand that were used by the US Olympic Cycling Team. In 1980 he went to work for Masi Bicycles in California until 1981. Shortly thereafter he rented space from Masi to resume the frame-building business under his own name.
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