Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Jim Bundy Spirit Road

2013 was a busy year for Wing Lau, a Sydney-based graphic designer: winning the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award for Visual Design & Communications, lauded…

Gellie Custom Tandem

With wisdom and experience gleaned from a career that spans working at GM-Holden, Ford & Toyota — troubleshooting engine and car manufacturing, to defending his…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Review: BOgear Spare Camel

After years of working as a bike courier in Sydney, my spine had conformed to the use of a single-shouldered messenger bag. Now that the…

2014 Sydney Classic Bicycle Show

It’s difficult to believe a whole year has passed since the 2013 edition of the Sydney Classic Bicycle Show, but there we were: both familiar…

Fikas Bikes 29er

Riding road bikes on gravel roads is all very well, but if you’ve been thinking it’s time to get serious, perhaps it’s time to ride…

Gear: Creux Cycling Apparel

Next Thursday, the 13th of February 2014, the London Bicycle Show kicks off at the ExCeL site and one of the myriad of exhibitors will…

Rogers Bespoke

Adelaide’s Treadly Bike Shop played host to a number of colorful characters over the final weekend of the 2014 Tour Down Under. By the last…

Flying Machine 3D Printed Ti

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has been around since the 80s, although those first ‘printers’ were expensive and cumbersome. They are more readily available these…

Kumo Cycles 650b Travel Bike

Right now, the South Australian capital of Adelaide is broiling with excitement as thousands of cycling fans converge upon it for the 2014 Santos Tour…

Review: Swiss Side Franc Wheels

Bike wheel reviews are often a heady combination of clichéd adjectives. As a reviewer you generally try your very best to avoid them at all…

Eric Hendren Street Tracker

Any fan of classic Australian bicycles will be familiar with the name of Eric Hendren. Eric was a frame builder who worked at Hoffy Cycles,…

2014 Australian Custom Bicycle Show

In December 2012, the inaugural Australian Custom Bicycle Show was held in Melbourne. Hosted by FYXO, the Show was a resounding success, bringing together the…

KRES Strada

The Melbourne-based duo of Nik and Michael sure caused a stir when they released photos of their home-grown KRES Pista a few months ago, and…

Pony Bikes Kenevans

Melbourne is Australia’s cycling hub. The city is relatively flat and has a bike lane infrastructure unparalleled by any other. Naturally, there’s a high instance…

KRES Pista

Australia’s southern state of Victoria has a long history of custom frame builders that have serviced the country’s demand for crafted road and track frames.…