Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Craddock Cycles R1.7

There’s not too many carbon fiber bikes on The Spoken — or maybe that be rephrased. There’s not enough carbon fiber bikes on The Spoken.…

August Wheelworks Adventure Road

Wheel building is often referred to as a ‘dark art’, although everyone who has built a pair themselves will tell you otherwise. It is a…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Rowan Frameworks Blue Tourer

The Bicycle Academy is a frame building school in Somerset, England, that’s dedicated to teaching anyone wanting to learn how to make their own bike.…

Talbot Frameworks Carbon Dalsnibba

One of the bikes exhibited by Talbot Frameworks at this year’s Bespoked Bristol show has an odd title — if you don’t know your Norwegian…

Insight: No Quarter Paint

Back in November 2013 we featured a striking mauve-on-purple track bike that had been restored from a real junker. It was a prime example of…

John Boultbee Leather Goods

The Brooks England catalog has undergone a revolution over the last couple of years, adding new additions to their range of superb products that still…

Sven Cycles Tourer

The UK Handmade Bicycle Show, Bespoked Bristol, is happening this weekend — 17th-19th April — and it’s shaping up to be the biggest and best…

Field Cycles: Made of Steel

Without ever meeting the guys from Sheffield’s Field Cycles in person, it’s always been a mystery as to who they really are. The custom, fillet…

Sven Cycles Classic Single Speed

Dorset’s Darron Coppin of Sven Cycles is somewhat of an anomaly in the custom framebuilding scene. Eschewing the current trend of making steel bikes that…

Field Cycles Classic

Yorkshire is the largest county in the United Kingdom, of a sufficient scale to warrant it being divided into three ‘Ridings’ — a division of…

Sven Cycles Super Light

13.9lb, or 6.3kg, isn’t a bad old weight for a steel road bike now, is it? With his latest build, Weymouth’s Darron Coppin has silenced…

Donhou Cycles x Middle of Nowhere

Where is your favorite place to ride? Is it careening through lanes of traffic on your daily commute? Traversing fire roads outside the city in…

Field Cycles Super Record Road

Most Britons with any interest in popular music will recognize the name of Keane, the synthpop group whose albums have topped charts on both sides…

Brooks England x Movember

Movember is drawing to a close and if, by now, you have a hairy upper lip, we salute you. Brooks England gives you something to…