Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Sven Cycles Rouge Noir Roadster

Haute couture fashion and the gritty workshop of a custom framebuilder may seem like worlds apart. But considering that both produce wearable art which is…

Bamboo Bicycle Club frame kits are here!

While there will always be a market for supermarket-quality, colour-coded ‘fixies’ with substandard bottom brackets, wouldn’t it be great if it was eschewed for the…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Gear: Chrome Knurled Welded

My waterproof Ortlieb panniers are looking a little worse for wear but there are surprisingly few options out there for serious wet weather portage. Like…

Indy Fab Crown Jewel Disc

The entrepreneurial spirit of New England frame builders has spawned many great stories and workshops over the years, although Independent Fabrications, borne from the ashes…

Winter Bicycles Discoteca

The Lee Valley VeloPark was the venue for the London Olympic track events in 2012. In April, it will play host to a somewhat more…

Affinity Kissena World Champ Edition

Affinity is a Local Bike Shop on Grand Street in Brooklyn, whose propriety Kissena track frame, named after the famous Kissena Velodrome, has won over…

Festka Dazzle

Norman Wilkinson was a British artist who specialized in oils and watercolours, but he was also a camoufleur: what he became really famous for was…

Campagnolo at the Tour Down Under

The 2014 Tour Down Under now seems so long ago and it won’t be long before we start looking forward to that next ‘modern’ classic,…

Kinfolk Cyclocross

During the experimental period of the 60s, geodesic domes were considered très chic living and work spaces. As a nod to the architecture of their…

Doug’s Yamaguchi

Few frame builders have influenced the world of the custom bicycle as much as Koichi Yamaguchi. His unconventional designs both shock and impress, but they…