Just to keep you correct - ALVES Charlie Ralph in Elgin Alves (Charlie Ralph) is the framebuilder up near Elgin in Scotland and had his workshop at ELGIN SPRINGS, LONGMORN, NR. ELGIN, MORAY, IV30 3RJ. He married in 2017 and has moved to Angola in Africa.............no new bikes since..... yet....Alves. The legendary Charles Ralph built his bikes in the village of Alves between Elgin and Forres in Moray, north east Scotland.