Back in 2014, we featured a monstrously innovative downhill MTB: Paul Brodie’s 69er. After a fresh restoration, it debuted at the 2020 BC Bike Show as a proud statement of his incredible talent as a designer and fabricator. The Spoken is proud to present, in Paul’s own words, the story of that process.
With just a passing glance, the new frame hobbyist frame builder Lyle Wiens built for himself looks like a regular awesome fat-tyre road bike. Lyle, however, is 6’8″ and the frame has a few cool tweaks to accommodate his height.
After teaching countless students how to build their own frames, Paul Brodie has finally managed to make something for himself, this rowdy 27.5″ MTB. It’s…
If riding a bicycle is your passion, the best thing you can do for yourself is attend a framebuilding course and make one of your…
It’s Kona’s first appearance on the pages of The Spoken and what a bike for the Canadian marque to make its debut upon! This 1998…
Clunker? Kruiser? I don’t know. It’s late, matchsticks are propping open my eyes and I’ve spent the night reading about every deck in P.D’s Online…
One of our favourite builders, Paul Brodie, just finished a batch of Internal Cable Routed fillet brazed stems that he’s now offering for sale. Available…
Landyachtz, well known for its 20-year history in the skateboard world, has rolled into the bike scene. As avid cyclists, the progression into handcrafted bikes…
Granville Island is a 35-acre peninsula at the south edge of downtown Vancouver that’s a tourist destination and a haven for artists and artisans. Vancouver’s…
Toronto’s VéloColour lay down some of the most spellbinding works of art in the two-wheeled world. When Noah Rosen, the man holding the spray gun…
Well, isn’t that just the cleanest silhouette you’ve ever seen? Not a single derailleur to mess up the picture. For the past couple of days,…
This weekend, the 2017 North American Handmade Bicycle Show is in full swing, and Paul Brodie is again giving the readers of The Spoken an…
With the North American Handmade Bicycle Show launching today and with it the cavalcade of beautiful bicycles about to hit the airwaves, today’s feature bike…
It’s nearly 15,000kms from Perth, the capital of Western Australia, to Vancouver, the most populated city in Canada. That makes Ben’s Dekerf a widely-travelled ride…
There’s a big difference between a custom bike and a customized bike, and it’s been a while since we’ve featured one of the latter. Cory…
