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Calendar / 2024 Calendar of Shows & Expos

2024-07-10 11:00:00

In 2024 there are more handbuilt bike shows than anytime this century. Here is a list of all the significant handbuilt bike expos and shows around the world that we've been able to find.

Frame Builders / July: An Unusual Talent

2024-07-04 11:11:00

The Covid shutdown of 2020 was pure opportunity for Ben Jurgensen, then a 33 year-old sculpture studio teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design. Freed from the routine of everyday life, he started on the path of bicycle frame building t...

Bicycles / Bilenky's Gravel eBike

2024-07-03 15:04:00

Bilenky Cycle Works stands among the select few bespoke frame builders ready and willing to craft ebikes, a fact starkly evident at the Philly Bike Expo where Steve Bilenky’s enterprise stood as a beacon amidst a sea of – albeit excelle...
  • Shows & Events /

    2024-07-01 14:17:00

    Roving reporter Chris Keller-Jackson dived in at Manchester's 'Vicky Baths' venue on June 28 and found that while the spirit of innovation and progress is alive and kicking within the UK bike manufacturing scene, it's balanced with a respec...

  • Frame Builders /

    2024-06-26 14:57:00

    Stepping up from bike maintenance to frame building is, well it's more a leap of faith. Charles Thompson of Fine Bikes completed that leap last year, and in the biking boom town of Raleigh, North Carolina, he's plying a healthy trade in par...

  • The Ride /

    2024-06-30 19:19:00

    An astonishingly efficient all-rounder, this bike by Naked does everything well. Its primary purpose is 75-100 mile mixed-surface rides with 10,000ft climbing and descending. Good riders on other bikes have been unable to even finish these ...

  • Shows & Events /

    2024-06-13 11:00:00

    A preview of Australia's leading handbuilt bike expo, formerly known as Handmade Bicycle Show Australia, or HBSA. Spoken runs June 14-16 in Melbourne, Victoria, and features the best of Australia's bike manufacturing alongside a wealth of g...

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Bicycles / Bilenky's Gravel eBike

2024-07-03 15:04:00

Bilenky Cycle Works stands among the select few bespoke frame builders ready and willing to craft ebikes, a fact starkly evident at the Philly Bike Expo where Steve Bilenky’s enterprise stood as a beacon amidst a sea of – albeit excellent – custom built convention.

The Ride / Andre Haak's 1991 Colnago Master: Tall cool one

2018-08-23 06:50:00

Andre Haak bought a Colnago Master frameset that was ridden by Belgian superstar Edwig Van Hooydonck to victory in the 1991 Tour of Flanders, and recreated a Buckler team replica bicycle as Van Hooydonck would have ridden.