Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

The world of classic bicycles is fascinating. Here we’ve profiled everything from the best vintage road bikes to iconic retro cruisers, with a focus on simple, elegant designs.

We’re particularly fond of racing bicycles from the 1960s onwards, with their lightweight frames, drop handlebars, and narrow tires designed for speed.

And at the other end of the spectrum, let’s not forget cruisers with wide handlebars, balloon tires and comfortable seats, perfect for leisurely rides around town.

If you love the style and charm of classic models from the past, this is the section for you.

Paul Brodie and The Whippet #5

Paul Brodie has taken us on a step-by-step lesson on how to build a full-suspension 1888 Whippet over the last week, and it’s proved to…

Paul Brodie and The Whippet #4

Paul Brodie has been taking us through, over the last week, the steps involved with recreating an 1888 full suspension Whippet bicycle. Paul is a…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Paul Brodie and The Whippet #3

Paul Brodie talks us through the third episode in this series, fabricating an exact reproduction of an 1888 Whippet full-suspension bicycle. You’ll be able to…

Paul Brodie and The Whippet #2

Welcome to the second installment in Paul Brodie’s frame-building dissertation, where he recreates a Whippet full-suspension bicycle frame from 1888, which will be presented at…

Paul Brodie and The Whippet #1

Paul Brodie is one of the godfathers of modern off-road cycling, being heavily involved in the early days of the Canadian scene. He started Brodie…

Pony Bikes Super Deluxe

How many of us can remember our first bike? For many of us, learning to ride is one of our earliest acquired skills, so it’s…

Pony Bikes Tricycle

Hang on to your wooden balance bikes: Sasha from Melbourne’s Pony Bikes has just concocted what could be the coolest kid’s tricycle ever. A local…

Garin Cycles

In retrospect, since writing The Spoken, I haven’t looked at any aluminum frames with great fondness, barring the odd Klein, hand made Yeti or ‘Dale…

Biascagne Cicli Umberto Dei

Biascagne Cicli is a partnership dedicated to the restoration and art of the bicycle, located in Treviso, a city in the north of Italy. Treviso…

Raleigh International

Marie and Ryan from New Jersey’s Folk Engineered recently completed a simultaneous restoration for two brothers, Drew and Fred. Drew bought this Raleigh International in…

A. Pourquoy

While a pourquoi is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is, for example why a snake has no legs, or…

Wolfies Cycles

Even the most finely crafted handmade bicycle needs to be ridden for quite a few kilometers before it develops a personality. I’ve come to the…

ANT Bikes Copper and Wood

Mike Flanigan of ANT Bikes is a man on a mission: to make beautiful, practical bicycles that will hopefully enable more people to realize they…

Chiossi Cycles Gloria

Paolo Chiossi worked his magic once again, this time with a circa-1940s Gloria frame. While Paolo’s refinement is masterful, it also serves to highlight the…

Chiossi Cycles Maino

This magnificent machine was originally a Maino frame from the 1940s until Paolo Chiossi restored it to its former glory. Chiossi Cycles is based in…