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) …

… and some lovely little details too.

Purple-tastic-ness; largely from Hope.

WE do like this neat internal routing.

Some simple, clean lines from Mawis’ Ti hardtail, with a kinked seatstay.

Bice has been going for less than a year. LESS THAN A YEAR, PEOPLE.

Ridiculous.

Nice dropouts made to use Paragon inserts. So you can run plus or regular sized tyres. Whimper. Less than a year, remember?

The Goodies get rad.

A slice of mental from Dear Susan. Mental which doesn’t recognise its left hand side.

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).

KAPOW

Toad – insert ‘whole’ gag here.

Curtis. Some bikes look as good grubby as they do clean. This is one of them.

Oh, Middleburn, how pretty thou art.

A machine befitting the wild-haired, wide-nostrilled agoraphile…

 

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