Take a minute to think about the moments you’d like to experience this year, and start sowing the seeds

Paul ‘Burf’ Burford is a maker through and through. As you’ll see if you follow his Instagram feed, if something breaks, his response is rarely ‘Where do I buy a new one?’, but instead ‘How can I fix this?’. You’ll also clock him on Dad duties, with school runs by…

You know the joke about tartan paint? Jack Kingston is a sought-after bike finisher and painter from Yorkshire who can make your tartan paint dreams come true.

On the Ted James stand at Bespoked Manchester, this bike was practically just cooling down, having still been being built the night before. Ted talked us through the build of this Moto Proto.

‘Watching it go from a pile of loose tubes to a bike frame never ceases to be magic.’ Meet the maker of the Alfano Froad bike

Check out this impressive first effort at bike building!

This was originally the editorial piece in a Weekly Word Newsletter. When it went out, a few people suggested that it would make a great Forum discussion/reminiscing topic. So here it is for you to read, and then head to the comments to recall the people you’ve taught, or who…

Vee from Sideways makes custom carbon fibre bicycle frames. Mainly road and gravel and ‘single speed fun bikes’, but she also says there’s a ‘hardtail pending’. I spent a few minutes with her at Bespoked Manchester in order to find out a bit more about the path that brought her…