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

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17th – 19th April 2015: Brunel’s Old Station and the Arnolfini, Bristol

Bespoked 2015, The UK Handmade Bicycle Show, is returning to its Bristol roots. Having visited the Lee Valley Velopark (and paid homage to its Olympic track) Bespoked is back on home turf this April, neatly tying in with Bristol’s 2015 European Green Capital programme.

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Brunel’s Old Station will be bursting at the seams with bicycle framebuilders displaying work of a higher standard and greater diversity than ever before. We’re delighted to welcome back returning talent such as Field Cycles, Donhou Bicycles and Demon Frameworks; companies at the cutting edge of British bicycle design and manufacturing. And as ever we’ll be welcoming a host of new exhibitors from across the world; from the sleek, sculptural, French designs of Keim to Tokyo-based Helavna Cycles. 

Bespoked remains a UK showcase for the best framebuilders in the world, but the best keep getting better and the world of handmade bicycles keeps on growing. So there’s a second venue at the Arnolfini; one of Europe’s leading centres for the contemporary arts. In a fantastic waterside location at the heart of Bristol’s harbourside, it will host two new events: The Bespoked Handmade Cycling Goods and Design Show, and the Bespoked Constructors’ Challenge. 

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DMO in Bespoked ’14

The Bespoked Handmade Goods and Design Show is a showcase for cycling’s most beautiful and desirable accessories, design and apparel. With such burgeoning talent amongst the world’s independent makers of bicycle goods, Bespoked 2015 will highlight them in their own right in a Grade II listed, fully accessible building with free public entry.

The Bespoked Constructors’ Challenge aims to broaden and diversity the appeal of bespoke bicycles. Five teams of builders, designers and end users have been chosen to exhibit a custom-built bicycle created for a specific and real task. The event will demonstrate the diversity of possible uses for this simple and adaptable machine – and that they form a viable alternative to the car for everyday work and daily life.

 A retrospective of the cycling photographer Camille McMillan’s work completes the line up at the Arnolfini.

The largest international gathering of bicycle framebuilders just got bigger, broader and better than ever, and will now be at the very heart of this cycling city. Book your tickets now at https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/bespoked2015

The Exhibitor List

  • 14 Bike Co
  • 18 Bikes
  • Advanced Velo Design – Windcheetah
  • AOI.CYCLE
  • Alchemy Bicycle Company (Mosquito)
  • August
  • Automatic Cycles
  • Baum (Prestige Cycles)
  • Bear Bikes
  • Blacksmith Bikes
  • Bike Science
  • Boneshaker Magerzine
  • Brooks England
  • Campagnolo
  • Chicken Cycle Kit
  • Chris King
  • Cielo
  • Cloud 9 Cycles
  • COFA engineering
  • ColourBolt
  • Columbus
  • Comtat Cycling
  • Condor Cycles
  • Craddock
  • Curtis Bikes
  • Daccordi S.R.L
  • DeAnima
  • Dear Susan
  • Demon Frameworks
  • Donhou Bicycles
  • Downland Cycles Ltd
  • Evolution Imports
  • Faggin
  • Farrer
  • Festka
  • Field Cycles
  • Hallett Handbuilt Cycles
  • Hartley Cycles
  • Hatfield Cycles
  • Helavna Cycles
  • Hevans Custom Cycles
  • Hilton Cycles
  • Independent Fabrication – Mosquito
  • Jaegher Airlight Steel Race Cycles
  • Just Riding Along
  • Keim
  • Legend
  • Libertine Bicycles
  • Longstaff
  • Mackworks
  • Malcolm Custom Bicycles
  • Mawis-Bikes
  • Merényi Bicycles
  • Middleburn Cycle Components Ltd
  • Moots (Mosquito)
  • Mosaic (Prestige Cycles)
  • Mosquito Bikes
  • Moss Bikes
  • Mustard (Prestige Cycles)
  • Nappolini Cycles
  • Nerve
  • Nevi
  • Olsen Belt-Drive Bicycles
  • Orge
  • Oram Kaye
  • Pacenti
  • Paulus Quiros
  • Pedeled
  • Pegoretti (Mosquito)
  • Petersbike
  • Post
  • Prestige Cycles
  • Quoc Pham
  • Restrap
  • Revanche Bikes
  • Reynolds Technology
  • Robin Mather Cycles
  • Rohloff
  • Rowan Frameworks
  • Royce UK
  • Rusby Cycles
  • Saffron Frameworks
  • Sapim
  • Satoma Cycles
  • Seren Bicycles
  • Shand
  • Shed 6 Cycles
  • Shutt Velo Rapide
  • Slate Cycles
  • Son
  • Sparrow Cycles
  • Sputnik Tool
  • Strada Wheels
  • Stanforth Bikes
  • Strawberry Bicycles
  • Sven Cycles
  • Swallow Bespoke
  • Swarf Cycles
  • Sword Cycles
  • Swrve
  • Talbot Frameworks
  • Tatts and Beards Workshop
  • Teague Bicycles
  • Ted James Design
  • The Bicycle Academy
  • Ti Cycles
  • Titchmarsh Cycles
  • Toad Custom Cycles
  • Tsubasa
  • Tubal Cain
  • Velopresso
  • Virk Designs
  • Vulpine
  • Wheeldan
  • Wildcat Gear
  • Winter Bicycles
  • Wittson Custom Ti Cycles
  • Wold Cycles
  • Woodrup Cycles
  • Zullo (Mosquito)

 

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