We had the pleasure of visiting Brian Rourke at his bike shop yesterday. As well as winning over two hundred races and owning a fantastically well stoked independent shop he also produces some of the best bespoke bicycle frames in [...]
£555 (2010) – giant-bicycles.com The redesigned Bowery FMX clearly takes its inspiration from the custom boutique bike shops cropping up in cities around the globe. Looking like it’s a built to be a trick fixed gear bike capable of taking the [...]
£599 - genesisbikes.co.uk UK brand Genesis has been around for a little while now and continues to progress their portfolio of road and mountain-focused bikes with this the re-jigged version of their popular Flyer single speed. And while their competitors seem [...]
£595 – Cooperbikes.com Named after the circuit where Cooper won the F1 Championship in 1959 this is just one of four fledging two-wheeled efforts from the car company. Yes, that’s Cooper, as in Mini Cooper. And with a Wallpaper Magazine Design [...]
Surly Steamroller – £675 (2010) surlybikes.com A favourite on the messenger scene and one of the first off the shelf fixed gear bikes to wash up on these shores from across the other side of the Atlantic, the Steamroller is somewhat of an [...]
14 Bike Co. Truman Custom – Prices start at £850 (this model £1200) Situated in London’s fashionable Brick Lane you won’t be surprised to hear that 14 Bike Co exclusively produce and build singlespeed bikes. Offering a variety of different frame [...]
£845 - condorbikes.com Designing and building their own bikes for sixty odd years, along with selling a plethora of other companies’ bikes and accessories, London’s Condor Cycles have been producing bespoke singlespeeds for longer than most. Amongst its selection of track specific [...]
£850 - evil-bikes.com Evil are an American mountain bike company who have dipped into their toe into the vastly populated singlespeed market with a bike adorned with artwork by a chap called Matt Fagerness (we’d never heard of him either). But in [...]
Leery Monday morning stuff we know, but hey a man cannot live on bikes alone. So here we have Olympic medal winning Norwegian cross-country mountain biker Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå going through her bikini-based pre-race preparations. And if like us you’d [...]
Arguably one of the best cycling websites out there Velominati offers highly opinionated comment and highly opinionated discussion on every facet of the very serious world of cycling. But out favorite section of the site has to be ‘The Rules’ wherein the ’simple [...]
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