Firefly Bicycles FF411
When it comes to cycling, Melbourne is Australia’s capital city. But there’s one thing in trumps that Sydney has over its southern sister, and that…
Road Bicycles
Love high-performance road bicycles? Our selection of road bikes is a mix of customs and classics, perfect for those of you who love speed, agility and precision handling — on tarmac.
Horse Cycles John Roemer Road
The American economy could very well be rescued by the singlehanded efforts of Thomas Callahan, the New York-based frame builder and entrepreneur behind Horse Cycles.…
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Sven Cycles Tourer
The UK Handmade Bicycle Show, Bespoked Bristol, is happening this weekend — 17th-19th April — and it’s shaping up to be the biggest and best…
KRES Cycles & Apparel
If there’s one indication that Melbourne is Australia’s capital of cycling — and style — it’s the swathe of new brands offering a variety of…
MFS: Reach for the Dream Bikes
We first had an inkling of the Reach For The Dream project, presented by Manual For Speed, back in June 2014. Since then we’ve been…
Pias x Pancalen Cycles Scarab
If we’ve got our international date times correct, you should be reading this as one of the first emails in your inbox for the day.…
Victoire Cycles Tandem
There’s always something new happening around the Victoire Cycles workshop. It’s located in the Auvergne region of France, in Clermont-Ferrand, home also to Bibendum and…
Sven Cycles Classic Single Speed
Dorset’s Darron Coppin of Sven Cycles is somewhat of an anomaly in the custom framebuilding scene. Eschewing the current trend of making steel bikes that…
Bishop Bikes Di2 Disc Road
The weather’s been pretty cold around Baltimore this week, but that only means Chris Bishop has been holed up in his workshop catching up on…
A Legend built for an Aussie living in the Ruhr Valley
With a name like Legend, your expectations are going to be high. Those expectations are met when you read about Marco Bertoletti, a master framebuilder…
Ritte Cycles Stainless Snob
Thank god for Los Angeles’ Ritte Cycles. The whole ethos of the Ritte brand is to remind us that riding is fun and to get…
Kenevans Columbus Max Road x Skunkworks
Sydney’s Skunkworks Bikes, specialists in ultra-high-end upgrades and bicycle weight loss, have been churning out a long list of quality builds lately, including the whole…
Formigli Asiel RF
This is the second Formigli to be featured on The Spoken, the first being a Classic — Columbus-tubed with gold-plated lugs. The Asiel RF, however,…
Stone Artist LLC
This is a Giant Propel Advanced. It’s got AeroSystem Shaping Technology and a SpeedControl SL brake system which, according to the Giant website, is the…
Rozzo for Mark Levinson
There’s been a groundswell of custom builders emanating from Central Europe and, in particular, the Czech Republic. It’s spearheaded, of course, by Festka, but Rozzo…
