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.

Bishop Bikes Dura-Ace Track

Looking at these images of Chris Bishop’s craftsmanship, I can’t help but be reminded of its similarity to a fine hand made watch. The idea…

The Tweed Steed

The Tweed Run was inaugurated in 2009 by the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed crew, which since then has grown into a veritable institution.…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

F. Moser Motard

It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, but I’ll also attribute a few beers and an active imagination. It was certainly a contributing…

De Rosa Neo Primata

Ugo De Rosa, another padre of the Italian racing bicycle tradition, celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday in January this year. The De Rosa business doesn’t show…

Vitus 979 Townie

Rangga Panji and his wife run Pancalen Cycles in South Jakarta. They have been busy lately, two of the many bikes that have been through…

Cannondale SuperSix EVO

I dropped by City Bike Depot the other day, one of my favorite bike shops, to say g’day to the lads and see what was…

YiPsan Bicycles Café Racer

The 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show provides plenty of eye candy for lovers of beautiful bicycles, from the casual enthusiast to the Keepers of…

MAP Bicycles disc-Ville

It’s usually around this time of the year that I quietly regret not being a resident of the United States, because it would make it…

Liberia Singlespeed

Dominic Darko must have invoked a higher power to breathe life into this Liberia frame, a French marque that existed from 1918 to the early…

Winter Bicycles San Ume

One booth I would love to hang out at this years NAHBS is that of Winter Bicycles. Eric Estlund is very much a traditionalist, and…

Shamrock Cycles Urban Bike

With less than two weeks until the 2012 NAHBS, most exhibitors will be exhibiting signs of extreme mental pressure in a rush to ensure the…

Sunn Traff

The French marque of Sunn represented a level of continental quality to the BMX and MTB scene of the 1990s. Perhaps it was the funky…

Colnago Master Retrogusto

To put this Colnago Master into context, perhaps I should have named this post Colnago ‘il Toro’, as it will immediately explain these original ‘bullhorn’…

Stanridge Speed Highstreet Pursuit

The Stanridge Speed Highstreet Pursuit, a low-profile, track-ready street fighter, has rapidly been filling the pages of its passport. Each week the Stanridge Speed facebook…

Colnago C59 Ottanta

On the 9th of February 2012, the immensely humble and intensely hardworking Ernesto Colnago celebrated his eightieth birthday. This milestone was spent like any other…