Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

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.

Colnago Saronni

Ernesto Colnago‘s bikes have carried numerous champions to victory over the years, but there are a few standout stars: Motta, Magni and Merckx, to name…

Kumo Cycles Lorday Road

Kumo Cycles‘ Keith Marshall is fast developing a name for himself as a modern Australian builder of solid, unassuming frames — an essential Aussie quality.…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Mali Pista

Boston’s Superb Bicycle store maintains a healthy stock of beautiful bikes and parts — we’ve previously featured Heidi Davis’ custom Fat Chance Team Comp that…

Vendetta Cycles The Abyss

The name of Vendetta Cycles may not be the first that springs to mind when thinking of the Portland handmade bicycle scene, but Conor Buescher…

Rotrax Vel d’Hiv

By all sources, Rotrax Cycles of Southampton was founded in 1945, pipping Mercian Cycles at the post for the title of the oldest framebuilder in…

Donhou Bicycles CMYK Track

If you’ve had any experience with the printing process you’ll recognize the significance of the letters C, M, Y and K. They stand for Cyan,…

LOOK KG 196

There’s few cycling brands more easily recognized than the French LOOK marque, a combination of their Mondrian-inspired branding and highly innovative products. Their pédales automatiques…

GION Italia

Very little information can be found online about the Italian GION marque. Giovanni Pelizzoli, a venerable godfather of the artisan Italian racing bicycle, sold the…

Tenspeed Hero Fuji Ace

Andy ‘FYXO‘ White strongly maintains the maxim that #lifeistooshorttorideshitbikes, but projects like this make me wonder where to draw the line. It just goes to…

Holdsworth Lady Mistral

The British ‘handmade bicycle family tree’ is almost as gnarled and twisted as the Italian, with builders moving from one brand name and family business…

Firefly Bicycles Ti Road

It’s almost been two years since Firefly Bicycles first set up shop in Boston MA. During that time, a seemingly endless stream of perfectly tailored…

Brother Cycles Flâneur

Only a city like Paris could provide the right environment for the evolution of the character known as a flâneur, but you will find them…

DSC x Bell 45 Triumph

Traditionally, Japanese have a deep respect for that which is well-crafted, requiring patience or meditation to master. They also highly consider that which has aged…