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.

Royal H Cycles

You probably recognize the Somerville, Massachusetts-based Royal H Cycles from the time trial bike that blew the blogs away during November, with that amazing rear…

Vanilla Bicycles Randonneur

Sacha White and the team at Vanilla Bicycles in Portland obviously haven’t been slowing down for the holiday season; their latest creation is an elaborate…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Eighthinch Scrambler V3

Kris from Locked Cog finished building up his Eighthinch Scrambler as a winter bike, with an almost complete Eighthinch ensemble of parts to match. It…

Icarus Leviathan

Hailing from Somerville, Massachusetts, Ian Sutton is a bit of a visionary in the custom bike-building arena. No wonder, having studied under the tutelage of…

Carrera Corse

We all dream about finding a brand new, virgin classic in a small bike shop and for Piero Morano, shop manager of Deus CYCLEWORKS, that…

Olympia Borghi

The 2011 range from Olympia Cicli is, as you’d expect from Italy’s second oldest and largest bicycle manufacturer (after Bianchi), the latest technology covered with…

Roberts SLX

As one of Britain’s great scions of the handmade bicycle tradition, it must be incredibly satisfying for Chas Roberts to look upon a frame he…

Colossi Cycling Cargo

Jan Kole is an ex-professional road racer from Holland who began producing frames under the tutelage of fellow Dutchmen Jaap Huisson and Sjaak van der…

Rivendell Sam Hillborne

The Sam Hillborne is Rivendell’s ‘Countryman’ frame, full of the high standard of quality, reliability and rich culture that Rivendell is famous for. Dressed up…

Cinelli Golden Black

This black beauty was the product of Cinelli’s in-house design team, probably intended as a special project or an exhibition piece. Cinelli has always placed…

Gitane Track bike: Vintage perfection

It seems the majority of legendary French cyclists were victorious upon a Gitane, and the odd Belgian and American as well. Jacques Anquetil, Lucien van…

Hufnagel Road

This glaringly white steed is the latest creation from the hands of Jordan Hufnagel, a builder from the world capital of hand made bicycles: Portland,…

Pereira Cycles Gent’s Bicycle

Allow me to present what could possibly be the ultimate in men’s urban bicycle transport: Pereira Cycle’s Gentlemen’s Bicycle. Constructed with the high level of…

Kinfolk Autumn

There are many parallels that can be drawn between cycling and the martial arts. Whether it is racing and sparring on the mat within the…

Mercian Vincitore

For a brief background to the Mercian marque, we have to venture back to what is now the United Kingdom, around the 7th Century —…