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.

Robs Woodwork Alien

Rob Pollock is an ex-professional speedboat racer and panel beater who has specialized in faux wood graining for around 40 years. Graining is a technique…

Freeman Transport

The work of graphic designer Chris Piascik should be easily recognized by now. Each installment in his ‘All My Bikes’ series was eagerly anticipated by…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Max Lelli Team

One reason I would only even consider a carbon fiber roadie over classic steel is the organic shapes the material can achieve. Take the forks…

Cinelli MASH x Woof x ARFX

The Cinelli MASH frame, for those that came late, is a collaboration between Cinelli, San Francisco’s MASH crew, and graphic designer Benny Gold. It’s already…

Bressan Vintage

It’s a real disadvantage not being able to speak Italian. Actually, it’s a real disadvantage not living in Italy. How I’ve gone this long without…

Deflux Pursuit

New Zealand is a majestic country and is a hotbed of creative minds and personalities: motorcycle pioneer John Britten is a perfect example of the…

Feather Cycles Lo-Pro

Ricky Feather is one of the UK’s most prominent BMX riders, and is known for executing manoeuvres that, lately, have been the inspiration for fixed…

Hampsten Team Pro

If you haven’t read Andy Hampsten’s account of his sub-zero ride to wear the Pink Jersey in the 1988 Giro d’Italia, you really should: it…

Ateliers d’Embellie Porteur

Nico from Ateliers d”Embellie has applied his essential French sense of style to this porteur, combining his appreciation of leather and cycling. A supreme technician…

Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra

It’s no secret that John Watson has a passionate interest in Eddy Merckx and the frames that are produced under his name. As the editor…

Baum Coretto Di2

It’s encouraging to see such a world-class machine being produced in Australia. Darren Baum, has been constructing frames under the Baum Cycles banner since 1996,…

CWMD Nagasawa

Mr. Nagasawa is one of a select few Japanese builders who are licensed to produce NJS approved frames for keirin racing. I have always been…

Speedvagen Road 2010

The images and copy associating the 2010 Vanilla Speedvagen Road frame is all the inspiration one needs to start reaching for the calculator, ‘Freezing mountain…

Townsend Grass Track

Grass track racing is an almost forgotten aspect of our sport. Along with bicycle speedway, it is eclipsed by the now very fashionable velodrome version,…