Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life
VANDEYK VDX

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: one of them is the VANDEYK collective. A network of metalworkers, designers, artists and photographers, VANDEYK keep impressing and surprising us with their sculptural road bikes. Their latest creation, however,…

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 prominent appearance. In fact, if you purchased the 2013 The Spoken Calendar, you’d be enjoying the svelte VANDEYK Nighstream right now—it’s Miss July. As you’d expect, the combination of these…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

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…

VANDEYK Purple Blast

In a welcome reaction to the understated tones and subtle hues that pervade the custom bicycle world, Germany’s VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles inject a searing splash…

VANDEYK Nightstream Di2

I’ve been looking forward to the advent of the VANDEYK Nightstream Di2 since the MTB edition was featured on The Spoken. Arendt van Deyk has…

VANDEYK Nightstream

One of the most graphically arresting machines I’ve come across lately originates from a German company titled VANDEYK. Consisting of a highly skilled and technical…