Rouleur Live 2025 served up an irresistible mix of cutting-edge tech, outrageous paint jobs and even some cycling nostalgia. Here are the standout bikes that caught our eye.
Field Pre Production Prototype 003
This is a prototype titanium/carbon from Sheffield-based Field. “
Our hybrid construction combines precision-moulded carbon-fibre lugs with metallic tubes, creating a lightweight, high-stiffness frame that retains the classic ride feel of metal,” says Field.
We couldn’t tell you how it rides, but what a looker!
Alexander Kristoff’s Ridley Noah Fast
Norway’s Alexander Kristoff left the pro peloton at the end of the 2025 season, and Ridley presented him with a one-off Noah Fast at Rouleur Live to mark the occasion.
Kristoff chalked up 98 professional victories, including Milan–San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Gent–Wevelgem — wore the Tour de France yellow jersey, took Olympic bronze and was crowned European champion.
There’s a Norwegian flag at the back of the seat tube, for example, to mark his national titles, and mentions of his other big wins elsewhere.
Mason Definition Integrale
We first showed you the Mason Definition Integrale last month – a “sharper, faster, and cleaner” version of the brand’s classic aluminium endurance bike.
The Integrale version comes with a sportier geometry than the original, and fully integrated brake hoses. The Launch Edition is numbered.
J.Laverack Speedform
The Speedform is another bike that we’ve told you about recently.
The frame is 3D-printed from titanium in three sections, then welded together.
The Speedform is said to be aerodynamically optimised and only 10 will be built in 2026 with frameset prices from £8,995.
Enigma Excel prototype
Enigma will launch an all-new Excel in spring next year, made from 6AL-4V titanium – seamless, double-butted, and cold worked.
3D-printing titanium seems to be de rigeur right now, and Enigma is building the Excel with a new 3D printed seat cluster that’s said to improve rigidity.
There are also 3D-printed UDH-compatible dropouts, and a new IS52 head tube with internal cable/hose routing for fully integrated cockpits.
The bikes will be made in England.
BMC Teammachine SLR 01
This BMC Teammachine SLR 01 has been given a one-of-a-kind paint job that we really like.
Built up with a SRAM Red AXS groupset and DT Swiss ARC 1100 Spline 38 CS WTS wheels – the brand’s first with carbon spokes – the complete bike has a claimed weight of just 6.5kg.
3T Primo2 WPNT
The Primo2 is the latest version of the gravel bike that 3T first introduced back in 2017. The cables are now out of sight thanks to 3T’s Semi-Integrale system, routed under the stem and into the top of the head tube.
The stack height is now slightly higher than previously for a more relaxed riding position, and Primo2 is UDH-compatible.
Scott Addict RC
This Scott might have a titanium look to it, but it’s actually the Chrome Silver version of the Addict RC carbon bike, complete with a SRAM Red groupset and a Syncros Capital SL Tubeless Disc wheelset.
Price? It’s yours for, um, £12,799.
Colnago C68 x La Vuelta
While you’ve got your credit card out, how about this Colnago C68? This particular version marks the 2025 Vuelta a España, which started in the Italian city of Turin. 90 of these were made, in recognition of the Vuelta’s 90th anniversary, each individually numbered and coming with a photo book.
The price of this one? There’s no easy way to break this to you: £19,999.
Colnago Steelnovo
Colnago launched the Steelnovo a year ago – a £14,500 limited edition steel road bike to mark its 70th anniversary – and now it’s back in two new colours: SNLB (Light Blue) and SNPP (Pastel Orange).
You get 3D-printed lugs, Columbus tubing, and a fully integrated design. Each frame is made in Italy, with production capped at just 400 units per year.
Trek Project One Gamut
You know all about Trek’s Project One system right? You can have a top-end bike in unusual finishes and built up to your own preferences?
Project One has been around for years, but the Gamut multi-colour paint job was introduced only last month, tand used on the bikes of Trek Factory Racing’s triathlon team at the 2025 Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.
It’s not one for shrinking violets.
MyCanyon Canyon Aeroad
Rouleur Live visitors saw customised MyCanyon Aeroad CFR bikes, including the Opus editions from artists Felipe Patone and Elena Salmistraro (shown), the Mano collection (featuring the new Jasper Philipsen-inspired Abell edition), and the Fabrio collection.
Like Trek’s Project One, MyCanyon allows you to personalise your bikes by choosing components, fit options, and unique finishes.
Look 795 Blade RS KG Edition
This Look 795 Blade RS KG Edition comes in a special finish to mark 40 years (nearly) since the brand’s KG86 frame, which was ridden to victory in the 1986 Tour de France by Greg LeMond.
That was the first of LeMond’s three Tour de France wins, and the first time that a carbon-fibre bike was ridden by the race winner. The KG86 used carbon and Kevlar tubes bonded into aluminium lugs.
The 795 Blade RS KG Edition might not share many features with LeMond’s 1986 bike, but the graphics hark back to that bygone era.
Pashley ATC
The ATC café bike doesn’t actually exist in Pashley’s range; although it’s loosely based on a current model, this is a show special made from Reynolds 631 steel to show off the brand’s craftsmanship. The seatstay yoke, cable ports and fork crown are 3D printed.
ATC apparently stands for both ‘Any Time Coffee’ and ‘All-Terrain Cycle’, and it’s inspired by the idea that you should be able to have a coffee anywhere… and that’s certainly something we’d endorse.
Built up with Hope brakes, Middleburn cranks and a Brooks saddle, there’s a British theme going on here, although that’s a Shimano Alfine 8-speed internal geared hub.
Pinarello Dogma F – Geraint Thomas
This is the Pinarello Dogma F Edizione Speciale G Thomas – the same bike that Geraint Thomas rode during his last professional race, this year’s Tour of Britain…
…complete with a Welsh dragon on the head tube and a list of some of his greatest achievements – including victory in the 2018 Tour de France – listed on the top tube.
We covered it in a Bike at Bedtime at the time, and it really is a stunner.
Graeme Obree’s Old Faithful
Not everything at Rouleur Live was ultra-modern, Graeme Obree’s Old Faithful making an appearance.
This is the self-made bike featuring a washing machine bearing that Obree used to break the World Hour Record in Hamar, Norway, back in 1993.
11 thoughts on “The coolest bikes of Rouleur Live 2025: titanium dreams, pro superbikes, and lots of 3D-printing”
That Obree bike must be as
That Obree bike must be as bendy as a bendy thing. He still got the Hour record on it. Is stiffness overrated as an attribute of fast bikes?
The hour record is a metered
The hour record is a metered constant effort with no hard acceleration braking or cornering. Also weight is of little importance so it may be heavier gauge tubing to mitigate. It was designed to allow him to pedal with his knees close together emulating a ski tuck hence the lack of top tube and famous washing machine bottom bracket. The Flying Scotsman film gives the whole story.
ChasP wrote:
It was – the main beam (can hardly call it a top tube!) was cut from a section of Reynolds 531 tandem tubing, which is much stiffer than standard to cope with the flex of tandem builds. Despite the odd frame shape I have seen it claimed that Old Faithful actually had greater torsional stiffness than other steel track bikes of the era.
‘The Flying Scotsman’ was so
‘The Flying Scotsman’ was so factually wrong, read the book.
Also, watch the Channel Four doumentary ‘Battle of the Bikes’.
Moser had a go at the hour record ten years after setting his record at the age of 44 (I think) and used Obree’s position. albeit with a chest pad.
Shame the article didn’t show Moser’s bike.
Anyway, none of the bikes have rim brakes and they are even uglier than me!
People at the time said that
People at the time said that the Old Faithfuls (of which there were a few) did flex a lot. Luckily steel ‘gives back’ most of the lost energy when it returns to the centre. That’s one of the reasons it feels so different from carbon fibre. Would Obree have been faster on a stiffer bike? Perhaps. But I suspect aero massively dominates here.
One of my racing friends in the ’80s and ’90s was a powerful fourteen-stone track sprinter. You could see his bottom bracket moving from side to side if you were on his wheel in a sprint. God only knows what he would have done to an Old Faithful.
lesterama wrote:
Those were attempts by others to copy Obree’s position though, weren’t they, and built without his idiosyncratic design genius? I remember reading an article in which the US frame builder Rob English attempted to build as exact a replica as possible of Old Faithful and he said he was able to achieve a remarkable level of stiffness – far greater than he was expecting – by using the same heavy gauge steel tubing Obree selected.
A friend of mine had the Old
A friend of mine had the Old Faithful after this one. Obree built a good few. He had an awful green one at the 1989 nationals.
lesterama wrote:
But it gives it back at the bottom of the pedal stroke when it is no use to you.
I like the Pashley.
I like the Pashley.
Yes! If I didn’t have
Yes! If I didn’t have something similar already…
That Laverack frame is
That Laverack frame is stunning but its 9k for the frame only ,thats one that noo e will buy sadly