Kumo Cycles Randonneur
Recently, the Australian state capital of Brisbane played host to a bicycle gymkhana of sorts, called Pushies Galore. It was a celebration of Queensland’s cycling…
Bike brands from Australia
LixBMX RAWR Cobra Pro
Restoring an old bicycle can be an extremely rewarding project, especially when you finally get to roll around on it. Of course, there are always…
Recommended Reading
Baum Corretto GTR
The Australians had a good run on the third stage of the 2013 Tour de France, with Simon Gerrans of Team ORICA-GreenEDGE crossing the line…
Ricardo Elite: An Australian classic
My first real road bike was a Ricardo. After years of trouncing around the countryside on rigid GT mountain bikes and trying to translate that…
FYXO Fauxnago
As kids, we all encountered a Fauxnago or two in the neighbourhood, but this is the real deal. Sergio Fauxnago was employed at the Colnago…
Artisan Magazine—Kumo Cycles
Artisan Magazine is an iPad magazine that focuses on stories of the local, personal and unique—all things handmade, simple and beautiful. It started as a…
Primate Frames All-Mountain
About two hours ride south of Sydney stands the Illawarra Escarpment, a dramatic series of cliffs that rise up from the coast, extends about one…
Nic Roberts’ Wooden Bike
They may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but there’s nothing like a wooden bike to pique the interest of any onlooker. Most ‘serious cyclists’…
2013 Sydney Classic Bicycle Show
Were classic bicycle shows as popular ten or twenty years ago as they are now? These days, it seems there’s a show for every major…
Euro Sport FYXO
It certainly doesn’t sound like an Antipodean brand, but Euro Sport frames are as Australian as meat pies and magpies. Built by Brian Hayes expressly…
Kumo Cycles Lorday Road
Kumo Cycles‘ Keith Marshall is fast developing a name for himself as a modern Australian builder of solid, unassuming frames — an essential Aussie quality.…
The Spoken Jersey
Louison Bobet, Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Ottavio Bottechia, Charly Gaul, André Leducq: suave, debonair and gritty champions of a black and white era. Their steely…
McLennan Mistral
Those of you with an appreciation for classic motorsports may twig at the title of today’s bike: the Maserati Mistral was produced from 1964 to…
Australian Custom Bicycle Show Pt. 2
2012 has been a huge year for cycling — especially within the handmade bike scene, which seems to get bigger each month. It’s been a…
Kumo Cycles Gus’s Road
The process of acquiring a custom bicycle may seem like a very personal thing, but in fact it’s a collaborative process. There’s the relationship between…
