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The third UK Handmade Bicycle Show – Bespoked Bristol – will see over 80 exhibitors including those from the UK’s cycling heritage as well as the equivalents from overseas, as well as a new generation of bespoke frame builders.
Exhibition space is sold out for Bespoked, which runs Friday April 12th to 14th at Brunel’s Old Station, Bristol Temple Meads. According to the organiser, the rising interest in cycling in the UK has led to a resurgent custom-made bicycle industry.
This year’s show celebrates the 100-year anniversary of stainless steel, with a display of stainless steel bicycles taking up the reception area.
Following the success of the first year’s show, it moved to a larger venue last year – the iconic original railway terminal built by Brunel at Bristol Temple Meads. Over 4,000 visitors came to the 2012 show to see its 70 exhibitors.
Organiser Phil Taylor is a bicycle maker himself, with Libertine Bicycles, operating out of a small workshop in the Slad Valley, Gloucestershire. He explained: "I’d become interested in building a bicycle for myself, using the traditional techniques and materials of the classic British early 20th Century bikes. But I could find neither the information nor even the existing builders, as the culture was for small builders to work away quietly and modestly in their own areas.
"For the 2013 show we think that ‘actions speak louder than words, so we are going to build a bike from scratch, which will be made to fit one very lucky person. From the initial consultation and bike fit through tube selection, frame design, lug prep and carving, brazing, making forks and stems, checking alignment, choice of components and wheel building, some of the finest framebuilders and bike fitters in the world will be combining skills in this event."
Full exhibitor list:
13th Floor Distribution
14 Bike Co
18 Bikes Ltd
Atomic22
Bike Science
Boneshaker
Brian Rourke
Brick Lane Bikes
Brooks England
BTR Fabrications
Campagnolo – Chicken Kit
Cherubim
Chicken Cycle Kit
Cinelli
COFA Engineering
ColourBolt
Columbus
Condor Cycles
Cyclefit
Cyfac
Demon Frameworks
DMO Frameworks
Donhou Bicycles
Downland Cycles Ltd
Dynamo Works
Enigma Titanium
Era Cycles
Faggin Bikes
Feather Cycles
Field Cycles
Firefly – Velo Cafe Magasin
Flat Frame Systems Ltd
Freshtripe
Geek House
Guru – Cyclefit
COLUMBUS
Hobo Cycles
(iL) Soigneur
Independant Fabrications
– Mosquito + Velo Cafe Magasin
Ironworks
Just Riding Along
Legend
Libertine Bicycles
LookMumNoHands
Loop Wheels
Made in England
Manchester Custom Cycles
Mawis Bikes
Merényi Bicycles
Middleburn Cycle Components
Milltag
Mosquito
Moulton Bicycle Company
Nagasawa – Tokyo Fixed
Oak Cycles
Odoni
Oyster Bikes
Parlee – Velo Cafe Magasin
Passoni – Cyclefit
Paul Component Engineering
Paul Hewitt Cycles Ltd
Paulus Quiros
Pedaled
Pegoretti – Mosquito
Peter’s Bikes
Racer Rosa Bicycles
Renwick Bicycles
Reynolds Technology
Roberts Cycles
Rock n Road Cycles
Royce UK Ltd
Rusby Cycles
Saffron Frameworks
Sapim – Chicken Cycle Kit
Serotta – Cyclefit
Seven Cycles – Cyclefit
Schwalbe
Shand Cycles
Shutt Velo Rapide
Slate Cycles
Strada Wheels Ltd
Sven Cycles
Swallow
Sword Cycles
Swrve
Teague Bicycles
Ted James Design
The Bicycle Academy
The Footdown
Titchmarsh Cycles
Tokyo Fixed
Tonic Fabrication – Tokyo Fixed
Trykit Conversions Ltd
Velo Cafe Magasin
Villiers Velo
Vulpine
Winter Bicycles
Woodelo
Zamboo Bikes
Zullo – Mosquito
(Photos by Kayti Peschke and Robert Wade)
