This year’s Bespoked organisers made a point of getting nice photos of at least one bike by every builder at the show. Because bike builders might be good at building bikes, but they’re not always good at photographing them. Luckily, Adam Gasson is good at taking pictures, so we’ve rounded up the flat bar knobbly tyred shots from his collection so you can get your peepers round some of that hand made loveliness that was on show.
ActoFive
CNC machined and bonded, plus their own machined cranks. Definitely fizzy raspberry flavoured. Probably smells like dewberry.
Auckland Cycles
A mad max of bikes, designed with the assistance of Lego, built to demonstrate the Kolarp suspension system.
Black Cat Customs/Privateer
Not handmade, but hand painted. Probably way to nice for any actual privateer rider – you’d totally have to sell it to get the van fixed, right?
Black Cat Customs/Coal Bikes
Black Sheep Bikes
Fat, phat. Offsetting all that rubber by only having one sprocket.
Lugged titanium travel bike, for cruising the streets and trails of the world. Super short back end for wheelies.
Brother Cycles
A Big Bro. Always good to have one to look out for you? This one seems perfectly sensible. Probably going to uni to study something sensible, making you and your media studies GCSE look bad.
Cicli Barco
Italian sleekness, modern engineering, classic style.
Clandestine
It’s thirsty work riding a very long way on a tandem. Made for a couple to do just that. Do you love your significant other enough to hit the road like this?
Coal Bikes
Rideworks bling, White Industries cranks, SRAM AXS… more of a diamond than a lump of coal?
Curtis Bikes
Very distinctly a Curtis, now with 29er wheels.
Dawley Bikes
Come out and play, freeride lives. Dirt is for jumps, not roads.
Etoile
Old school MTB vibes.
Mountain biking needs more picnics.
Howler
Come and buy me if you think you’re cool enough. How many midlife crisis is it acceptable to have?
We build jumps from the bodies of zombies and berms from the tails of dragons. This bike listens to Death Metal.
Huhn Cycles
When you’re very tall and you build your own bikes… Even the bottles are titanium.
Grey and tan wall tyres. Discuss.
Orange Bikes
Still hand made, just in quite a big shed.
Perry Titanium
Yes, those bars are for sale separately if you want them. Which we suspect you might.
Prova Cycles
All the way from Australia. Where the winter mud beating benefits of a gearbox are probably not fully realised.
Rå Bikes
Our ‘Best Mountain Bike’ award winner. Head to the comments to disagree.
Salitter Cycles
Fabric inspired paint on a steel hardtail.
Selwyn Bicycles
Made in the Alps, which you can see on the bridge between the seat stays.
Sour Bikes
Looks very cool, and no one would notice if you didn’t clean it for a bit.
Stayer
To the shops, the skate park, or the trails?
Neon splatter. Would look great with your mullet.
Just stunning. Until 18th November you’ve still got time to get your name down to win this bike!
The Bicycle Academy
Marmite.
Ted James Design
Wild card entry among the mountain bikes but it’s too hot to miss. And there’s still room for another midlife crisis.
Windover Bikes
Head over the hills and far away, or just buy the Carbon Adventure Fork for your existing escape machine?
Thanks to the crew at Bespoked for making the effort to get these bikes shot – it was a fair old haul out of the velodrome, up the stairs and along a maze of corridors to get to where the studio was set up.
And now, could you narrow it down to one favourite? Go for it:
