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 Tecnos

The Tour de France is a tradition that extends back 99 years, so it’s interesting to note how the bikes have evolved. The Colnago Tecnos…

Vendetta Cycles Ice Baby

There’s been a spate of gorgeous road bikes on The Spoken lately, which could have something to do with the Tour de France, currently in…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Hampsten Cycles Eddy MAX

Around this time of the year, while the classics and Grand Tours are in full swing, the Hampsten brothers are at their happiest. Memories are…

Globe x Malarky x VNA

Very Nearly Almost is one of the world’s leading magazines on street art and graffiti and must be one of the longest in publication, having…

Colnago Master Copperhead Road

Ernesto Colnago’s Master frame was first released during the mid-80s and featured crimped tubes that was purported to add strength, although whether it was structural…

Studio Brisant

Uwe Scheufen and his Studio Brisant are located in Münster, Germany, about 300 miles from Berlin — where Fashion Week is just about to wrap…

A Giro Meccanico stripped raw in Madrid

Japanese Keirin frames are known for their fancy paint schemes — infused with glitter and bearing the elaborate and deeply venerated marques of their builders.…

MAP 650B Discville

If you’ve been thinking of moving on the Bugatti Type 57 in the garage because you need more space, here’s an ideal replacement: Mitch Pryor,…

Roberts Strada

The husband-and-wife team of Jakarta’s Pancalen Cycles seem to have a constant procession of interesting machines pass through their doors, ranging from sassy mixte restorations…

Sleepstreet Hawn

The starter’s gun is very close to igniting the start of the 2012 Tour de France. This year’s edition, the 99th, will begin in the…

Kumo Cycles Pista

If you were fortunate enough to attend last Sunday’s 2012 Melburn Roobaix, the friendly ride through Melbourne’s cobblestoned laneways, you may have encountered the two…

Review: Ortre Cinco5

Ortre is a design studio based in Sydney that create products for ‘everyday cyclists’. You will hopefully recognize the name from the sidebar of The…

Garage 271 Dürkopp

Garage 271 are two guys who are intent on reviving interest in the long wheelbase, easy-tracking frames of the 1930s — 50s. This is one…