Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Sven Cycles Super Light

13.9lb, or 6.3kg, isn’t a bad old weight for a steel road bike now, is it? With his latest build, Weymouth’s Darron Coppin has silenced…

Zanconato Road32

Steel, aluminum or carbon? What’s your favorite material for a frame? These days, a custom frame in any is very accessible — you needn’t feel…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Legor Cicli Road

We have different reasons for riding the bikes we ride. They fulfil certain requirements for stages of our cycling, and each delivers an individual experience.…

Review: Turn Zayante Cranks

This review has been a long time in the making — not because of laziness, writer’s block or through struggling to know what say, but…

Giant ATX 990 John Tomac

There’s a first for everything: This is the first Giant presented on The Spoken, but I’m glad it’s the ATX 990. Back in the 1997,…

Caletti Cycles Red Cap Project

If you’re a cinema buff, you might be starting to recognize some visual references in the theme of the latest bike from John Caletti: the…

Rogers Bespoke for Treadly

The world’s best professional cyclists have started to descend on South Australia’s capital city of Adelaide in preparation for the Santos Tour Down Under —…

Jaegher Phantom

If you didn’t know any better, you’d assume Belgium’s Jaegher Cycles were another well-branded startup with a frame builder on board. Jaegher was actually founded…

Donhou Cycles x Middle of Nowhere

Where is your favorite place to ride? Is it careening through lanes of traffic on your daily commute? Traversing fire roads outside the city in…

Symond Cycles CX

There’s a saying that goes something along the lines of “you shouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight”. If the gunfight is a cyclocross race,…