The Grotesque
Although his résumé reads ‘Industrial Designer’, I get the impression that there is more to the story of Owen Payette McGarry. A recent graduate of…
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.
Hampsten Cycles Maglia Rosa
The retirement of professional cyclists can be as fascinating as their racing conquests, although some stories haven’t ended well, despite a glorious CV. Andy Hampsten,…
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Festka Rapha Continental
This summer, the Rapha Continental riders will certainly discover the road less travelled, as it ventures into Hidden Europe. A new selection of frame builders…
Sven Cycles Rouge Noir Roadster
Haute couture fashion and the gritty workshop of a custom framebuilder may seem like worlds apart. But considering that both produce wearable art which is…
Bamboo Bicycle Club frame kits are here!
While there will always be a market for supermarket-quality, colour-coded ‘fixies’ with substandard bottom brackets, wouldn’t it be great if it was eschewed for the…
Indy Fab Crown Jewel Disc
The entrepreneurial spirit of New England frame builders has spawned many great stories and workshops over the years, although Independent Fabrications, borne from the ashes…
Affinity Kissena World Champ Edition
Affinity is a Local Bike Shop on Grand Street in Brooklyn, whose propriety Kissena track frame, named after the famous Kissena Velodrome, has won over…
Festka Dazzle
Norman Wilkinson was a British artist who specialized in oils and watercolours, but he was also a camoufleur: what he became really famous for was…
Doug’s Yamaguchi
Few frame builders have influenced the world of the custom bicycle as much as Koichi Yamaguchi. His unconventional designs both shock and impress, but they…
Arko Bici Townie
Despite a tumultuous recent history, the Slovak Republic is now a high-income advanced economy with one of the fastest growth rates in the European Union.…
Rogers Bespoke
Adelaide’s Treadly Bike Shop played host to a number of colorful characters over the final weekend of the 2014 Tour Down Under. By the last…
Munin Bikeworks
2014 is shaping up to be an exciting year for custom bicycles. More and more people are taking their cycling seriously and looking beyond the…
Speedvagen Road Machine
Adelaide’s Tour Down Under is just as much a social event as it is the first leg in the UCI World Tour. Ten minutes of…
Flying Machine 3D Printed Ti
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has been around since the 80s, although those first ‘printers’ were expensive and cumbersome. They are more readily available these…
Victoire Cycles Polo Bike
In spite of itself, cycle polo continues to thrive, fuelled by the fervour of devoted players and fans. It has been embraced most passionately by…
