BESPOKED Handmade Bicycle Show moves to Manchester

BESPOKED Handmade Bike Show returns to the UK for 2024, and Singletrack World will be there this year! Press Release begins: Embracing an enthusiastic response from visitors, exhibitors and international...

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Bicycle Frame Making in UK classed as ‘Endangered Craft’

The Heritage Crafts Association has been tracking the health of crafts in the UK since 2017, ranking traditional crafts by the likelihood they will survive to the next generation. This...

Hand Made Bike Show Bespoked Heads To Germany

After over a decade of successful UK shows Bespoked heads for the first time to Dresden, Germany, for its inaugural central European show on 13th to 15th October, 2023. Bespoked...

Drool This Way: A Lust Worthy Gallery of Hand Built Bikes

This year’s Bespoked organisers made a point of getting nice photos of at least one bike by every builder at the show. Because bike builders might be good at building……

Podcast: Rampage thoughts, Hannah’s love of Bespoked and some ASMR beer opening sounds

Another week, another episode of four of the Singletrack team sitting around their laptops talking about the big issues of the week. With only a very passing reference to politics...

Best In Show – Judging Bespoked’s Best Mountain Bike

When I was asked to judge the Best Mountain Bike at Bespoked, I had no idea how hard it would be. Last year I’d been along and picked my own...

Bespoked Bike Check: SmithyFrameworks Ullassa

We’d love to tempt you along to Bespoked, the Handmade Bicycle Show celebrating handmade bikes and the people that make them. To give you a taste of what you might...

Bespoked Bike Check: Coal Bikes 84

Coal Bikes turned a few heads at last year’s Bespoked show in Harrogate. This year, Bespoked has moved to the Lee Valley Velodrome in London, on 14-16th October, perhaps you’ll...

Bespoked Bike Check: ACTOFIVE Cycles P-TRAIN CNC

Want to see more of this sort of thing, or chat to the makers? Get yourself along to Bespoked, the handmade bicycle show, in London, 14-16th October. ACTOFIVE Cycles P-TRAIN...

Bespoked: Ryden Bikes’ Free 3D Print Your Own Bike Fit

Bespoked, taking place 14-16th October in London, celebrates hand built bikes and their makers. Sometimes those makers are making bits for bikes, as well as whole bikes. Here, we’ve got……

Bespoked Bike Check: The Variangle Mk5

We’ll be heading along to Bespoked in London for 14-16th October to check out all the hand built bikes and chat to their makers. It’s being billed as ‘a celebration……

Bespoked Bike Check: Quirk Cycles SUPERCHUB

We’d love to tempt you along to Bespoked, the Handmade Bicycle Show celebrating handmade bikes and the people that make them. To give you a taste of what you might……

Chipps Pub Bike Framebuilding Downland

Podcast with Bespoked’s new co-owner Petor Georgallou

Perhaps you’re in the boat of thinking ‘one day, for a special birthday, maybe I’ll get a hand made bike’? Petor hopes that for the sake of the many small...

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Bespoked Show 2021 Moves To Harrogate For Its Tenth Year

We’ve just heard from the organisers of Bespoked, the British handmade bicycle show, that it is moving next year’s show to the Harrogate Convention Centre, from its previous home of...

Bespoked Bike Show Delayed To October

Another event has been postponed thanks to Coronavirus: Bristol based Bespoked, the UK’s handmade bike show. Looks like us bikey folks are going to find ourselves with a lot of...

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From Mood Board To Muddy Bike – the birth of a dream bike

You may have seen ‘Andy’s Hardtail’ by Mercredi in Wil’s round up of mountain bikes from Bespoked this year. You may also have dribbled a little bit when you saw……

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8 Fabulous Handmade Mountain Bikes From Bespoked 2018

Otherwise known as Bespoked, the 2018 UK Handmade Bicycle Show was held over the weekend in the centre of Bristol, with a plethora of beautiful and unusual bike-related goodies to……

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This handmade bike has a 60-70° head angle that you can adjust on-the-fly

Now that we’ve moved on from being dicks about wheel size (well, mostly), the new super exciting topic for debate in mountain biking right now would seem to be geometry....

Making Carbon Bikes Is Easier Than You Think – Carbon Wasp Is Hiring

Want to build carbon bikes, but don’t know where to start? Well, Leeds-based Carbon Wasp might have just the job for you… We first saw the company at last year’s...

New Matte Finishes For Chris King

And get that limited Emerald finish while stocks last

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10 Stunning Steel Full Suspension Bikes You Cannot Ignore

Steel is real! With more manufacturers building full suspension steel bikes than ever before, we\'ve decided to list some of the best on the market

Bespoked Show – A Tour Of The Bikes And Bits

A look at some of the lovely, lovely bikes on display

Bespoked 2017 – The Singletrack Winners

There were so many great bikes on show at last weekend\'s handmade bike show, Bespoked. Singletrack chose three winners - and here they are.

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A Look Inside Shand Cycles

We spent a couple of hours in the busy workshop of this Scottish framebuilding company

Retro frame builder shuts up shop

Chas Roberts is off for a well-earned holiday

Bespoked UK: It’s not (all) about the bikes

Part two of our report from the weekend\'s Bespoked show - warning, bikepacking content!

Bespoked, The UK Handmade Bicycle Show, returns to Bristol across two venues

The UK Handmade Bicycle Show returns to its Bristol roots.

Bespoked 2014

UK Handmade Bicycle Show Tickets Now Available

Bespoked 2014 opens for early bird bookings - and it moves from Bristol to a new London venue

The Bespoked Bristol Show: Pt2

More custom treats including Hammoon, Enigma, Burls and Delta 7

The Bristol Bespoked Show

Steve Makin reports on the UK\'s first, modern, hand-built bike show, plus an exclusive on the 18Bikes full susser