We love all bikes on The Spoken, but sometimes the most impressive ones are those that push the boundaries of frame design and materials. Right now, we’re totally bugging out on these bamboo bikes from Germany’s Ozon Cyclery and their Kickstarter project.
On this day, the tenth anniversary of The Spoken, we present one of the most interesting custom mountain bikes we’ve seen: a lugged 29er MTB whose lugs were investment cast from models that were 3D-printed — all wrapped around a Pinion gearbox.
Each of the bikes by Germany’s Big Forest Frameworks that we’ve featured on The Spoken is a middle finger in the face of staid methodology.…
Dan Pleikes probably builds the nicest titanium bikes in Germany. That doesn’t stop him from being the victim of bicycle theft so when his beloved…
With the 2019 Le Tour de France currently being played out, it’s time to look at a tall skinny bike. Like the race, this one…
While the rest of the cycling world is going gah-gah over carbon fiber wunderbikes, data trackers and power meters during the third stage of Le…
Designing a bike for a tall rider presents a range of challenges and it takes a proficient frame builder to still build a bike that’s…
Leave it to the Euro crowd to come up with quirky variations of sports for everyone to get involved with. Germany’s Mawis Bikes just finished…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here, thanks to Germany’s Big Forest Frameworks and a special holiday edition of their Disc Racer…
It seems there are a plethora of frame builders in Berlin, and Thomas Becker produces some of the city’s most elegant bikes. His firm, Meerglas,…
When are too many skulls not enough? Halloween, of course. In celebration of one of the high points of the cyclist’s calendar, we present a…
It took years of riding BMW GS motorbikes and a new build from Berlin’s Cicli Bonanno to draw a correlation between all-road bikes and the…
Yuji Kimura is a Japanese industrial designer who studied in Germany — and now lives there — and now designs beautiful bicycles under the moniker…
The catalogue of models available from Germany’s Bombtrack has included some popular and versatile machines for the past couple of years now, like the road-going…
In a world of fancy paint work and electronic groupsets, it’s easy to forget about what lies underneath it all: the craft of the frame…
