Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Norwid Vättern

You can be forgiven for not having heard of a German frame builder by the name of Rudolf Pallesen. There’s not a lot of information…

VPACE T1ST Gravel-Master

VPACE is a German brand whose portfolio is caught in a wonderful place between straight-up, purpose-built examples of Teutonic engineering, and completely free-styled creativity. Their…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Pelagro PB1 Superleggera

Superleggera is translated from the Italian as ‘super light’, but it’s also a licensed trademark of Carrozzeria Touring. Touring is an automobile coachbuilder established in…

Big Forest Frameworks XL3

If you’re struck by the individual nature of the lugs on this green road machine, Robert Piontek of Potsdam’s Big Forest Frameworks broke the process…

VANDEYK VDX

For a country that’s famed for excellent engineering, we only see the work of a handful of German custom frame builders. That’s all right, though:…

Crema Cycles Static 29er

Last weekend’s 2014 Berliner Fahrradschau revealed a few surprises, as you’d expect from such a central European and bike-friendly location. If you looked closely, among…

Vogel Randonneur

Before he started creating svelte custom bike frames, Ulrich Vogel worked as an architect. The two fields cannot be more distantly related, yet Ulrich manages…

Garage 271 Lightning

With every passing season bicycles, and especially mountain bikes, continue to evolve — whether it’s a chainring that doesn’t drop a chain, a new linkage…

Canyon Urban Concept

Eurobike has just finished up for another year and by the looks of things, there’ll be some interesting products filtering down through the bicycle market.…

Crema Cycles Road

Three years ago today, The Spoken went live—featuring an Indy Fab ‘crosser dressed in the color scheme of the Gulf Oil racing team. It was…

VANDEYK Rapha Continental

We’ve featured a number of Rapha’s superb Continental bikes here on The Spoken. The magnificent riding machines of VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles have also made a…

Moulinette x Hojmark ‘The Raw One’

The story behind Hojmark Cycles‘ brand identity recently made the rounds of the world’s great graphic design blogs, with good reason. Ineo Designlab, a Danish…

Vogel Rapha Continental

Carbon fiber has a lot to answer for, not only for the increased tube diameter which offers a greater opportunity to slather garish company logos…

VANDEYK Machine For Riding

Fast, beautiful vehicles are a local specialty of Stuttgart, Germany’s sixth-largest city. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Maybach are all produced there. Now the streets of Stuttgart…