Kumo Cycles is an Australian frame-building workshop operated by Keith Marshall, who specializes in custom steel bikes with classic styling and modern function.
Based in Braidwood, rural NSW, the off-grid workshop operates entirely on solar power. Bikes bearing the Kumo Cycles label are designed for the rough and unforgiving backcountry trails of the Australian Bush, and Marshall tests his machines by riding thousands of kilometers of tracks.
Robert Hoehne is an alumnus of the Audax Australia Cycling Club and initially approached Kumo Cycles for a tandem. After meeting with Keith to discuss the project, and encountering one of his own randonneur bikes, the plan somewhat changed.
As Kumo Cycles’ Keith Marshall was building this ‘Raddoneur’, Land Rover was building the last Defender and Keith, being a self-confessed ‘tragic Defender owner’ himself, painted it in the same Kesswick Green.
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