Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Black Cat Bicycles Dream Bike

In August 2013, Easton inaugurated their Handmade Dream Bike Charity Raffle — five builders who donated one of their bikes to be sold at auction…

Saffron Frameworks SS Road

In June last year, a 31-year-old named Mike Hall arrived in Greenwich after riding around the world — a distance of 18,000 miles. He completed…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Hunter Cycles Cyclocross

Rie Sawada from Tokyo’s Sim Works is just about to complete a 5,000km journey on her custom ‘coffee bike’, specially built for her by Santa…

An Iron Horse Sunday from Venezuela

Before filing for bankruptcy in 2009, Iron Horse was a noble steed, producing some innovative mountain bike frames that were victoriously raced in several World…

LOOK 860

Quite a few examples of LOOK‘s early foray into monocoque carbon fiber frames can be found via the various online auction and forum channels, due…

K. Bedford Customs

The waters of upstate New York’s Saratoga Springs must have a high creative content for custom frame builders: Ben Serotta’s band of brazers continue to…

Prefestka

If you attended the 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, you may have encountered a track bike with a pink mirror finish that was more…

Mcfly Custom Prototype

The spirit of ingenuity and engineering is not dead in Belgium, as Antoine Hotermans illustrates with this homemade frame. Viewed as a collection of individual…

A-train Cycles Gravel Grinder

Alex Cook of A-train Cycles likes tools as much as he likes bikes. The Minneapolis builder recently invested in a Swiss made Interapid test indicator,…