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.

McLennan Mistral

Those of you with an appreciation for classic motorsports may twig at the title of today’s bike: the Maserati Mistral was produced from 1964 to…

English Cycles Naked TT

A bicycle frame doesn’t naturally lend itself as a generous slab of advertising real estate, even those made from carbon composites. So when they’re surrounded…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Donhou Bicycles Alanna’s Townie

While the United Kingdom has an age-old and rich tradition of custom frame builders, it also has a number of very talented and passionate young…

Kumo Cycles Gus’s Road

The process of acquiring a custom bicycle may seem like a very personal thing, but in fact it’s a collaborative process. There’s the relationship between…

Wilier Triestina

The modern iteration of Wilier’s La Triestina is as different to its forebear as Alfa Romeo’s Spider is to a Tipo 33 — but at…

WIT Industries x Schatzi

This is the second installment in the series coordinated by WIT Industries between Dutch marque Koga and street artists from The Netherlands. Each artist is…

RENOVA srl

If there was a World Championship for style and flamboyance, you’d have a hard time wresting it from the shoulders of the Italians. Gabriele Limarzi…

Bishop Bikes Chris’s Own

This isn’t Chris Bishop‘s latest build at all, but I only stumbled across it recently and was awed by its striking features. Chris managed to…

Vuelo Velo Copenhagen

If there’s one thing to be said for Martin Renwick, ex-Pro racer, now design guru behind Australia’s Vuelo Velo: he doesn’t do things by halves.…

Baum Cycles Brian’s Corretto

Australia’s love for the custom bicycle dates back to the late 1800s — not bad for an internationally remote country that was colonized only a…

Fast Boy Cycles Burlington Burner

There’s few pleasures in life more honest than a good bike ride. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons for the resurgence of interest in cycling…

CWMD Glossy Black Track

The last we heard of Alan Sikirič, he’d completed Koichi Yamaguchi’s Framebuilding School, his class project bearing the master’s unmistakeable influence. Alan’s back with a…

Kenevans Track

This may be a brand new track frame by Ken Evans, don of Australian frame building, yet I can’t help visualizing it after 15 or…

Piero Fornasetti

During the first half of the 20th Century, the face of Lina Cavalieri was one of the most recognized around the European opera houses. She…

VANDEYK Purple Blast

In a welcome reaction to the understated tones and subtle hues that pervade the custom bicycle world, Germany’s VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles inject a searing splash…