Last week saw the 2016 Bespoked handmade bike show in Bristol. Our intrepid reporters Jon Meredith and Shaggy Ross went over there and took a colossal pile of photographs. Here’s a pick of just a few of them:
Shiny purple accessories detailing on this ‘Mustard’ custom, by Prestige Cycles (Brighton & Hove) …
Mustard ‘Return Of The Purp’
… and some lovely little details too.
Mustard ‘Return Of The Purp’
Purple-tastic-ness; largely from Hope.
Nice routing, Mister Mustard
WE do like this neat internal routing.
Mawis titanium
Some simple, clean lines from Mawis’ Ti hardtail, with a kinked seatstay.
Bice bicycles
Bice has been going for less than a year. LESS THAN A YEAR, PEOPLE.
Ridiculous.
Bice bicycles hand made sliding drop out outers aligned to allow wheel radius change
Nice dropouts made to use Paragon inserts. So you can run plus or regular sized tyres. Whimper. Less than a year, remember?
Bice – lovely yoke.Dear Susan modular triple – dear lord
The Goodies get rad.
Dear Susan mono side pinion
A slice of mental from Dear Susan. Mental which doesn’t recognise its left hand side.
Dear Susan mono side Pinion bike
So sprockets and brakes are all on the right. It’s very Conservative (see what I did there? A little bit of politics, laydeesngennlemen? Try the salmon).
Dear Susan mono side Pinion bike and Slingshot
KAPOW
Toad with custom clam shell yoke short stay 275 plus
Toad – insert ‘whole’ gag here.
Mmmmmm. CoffeeeeeeeeeeCurtis jump bike
Curtis. Some bikes look as good grubby as they do clean. This is one of them.
Middleburn standards stand
Oh, Middleburn, how pretty thou art.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Sven foraging bike
A machine befitting the wild-haired, wide-nostrilled agoraphile…
Shand 135 Rohloff belt drive full fattyTed James copper overlay beauty and the tourStanforth bikesMather Hack BikeTed James hack bikeShand hack bikeHack bike monster
Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome.
He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable.
Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles.
He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds.
He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.
Hidden the credit card where only I know, blast………….
No Starling?
That Mustard cuts it for me. Great looking frame and love the rear calliper position.
Inspiring stuff.
oxym0r0n. The Starling and accompanying show winners have their own story on the front page.