Interview: Atherton Bikes at Bespoked

In our final interview from Bespoked, Manchester, I stopped for a chat with Alex from Atherton Bikes to see if I could find out what’s ahead for the W …

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Interview: Atherton Bikes at Bespoked

The hand polished/finished lugs on Luca’s bike looked amazing.

I’ve never seen an Atherton in the UK but I saw dozens of them in Morzine. Obviously if you can afford one you don’t need to hang around on Plague Island with the rest of us.

I’ll probably never get one, but I do think that the S179 is a very beautiful bike.

Wish they would do a hardtail – like the Robot Zero

My mate has a A150. he really likes it.

Although it does seem to go through bearings quicker than most bikes…..

Second the hardtail request.

I have an A130 in the build queue (ETA October), and would love a hardtail (something around 130mm forks).

Robot had one in the pipeline just before the takeover. How hard can it be to print a few different lugs and glue some tubes in?! (BTW – I know that the answer is ‘very’!).