Bike at bedtime

Check out the Colnago C59 Disc – the beginning of the end for rim brakes

Travel back to a time when disc brakes on performance road bikes were radical, and Colnago was pioneering the new technology

Tue, May 28, 2024 20:45
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Remembering the rare Keim Cycles Arvak with a monocoque white ash frame (that you can apparently still buy for just under £10k)

We first became aware of Keim Cycles at the 2015 Bespoked Handmade Bike Show, and were wowed by its futuristic take on wooden bicycle design. While Keim has since all but disappeared, the bikes sure are fun to look at

Sun, May 26, 2024 20:44
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Remembering the stunning Carrera Phibra (not that Carrera), one of the finest Italian bikes of the 2010s

A bike with a pleasing touch of the fantastical about it, the Phibra is hard to come by nowadays, especially so in the UK due to a certain large retailer preventing the Italian Carrera bikes from being sold on these shores

Sun, May 19, 2024 20:44
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Take a look at Tadej Pogačar’s tricked-out Colnago V4Rs

Pog’s Giro d’Italia bike is fitted with some cool carbon-fibre components and is decorated in pink to match his race leader’s jersey

Tue, May 14, 2024 20:45
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Cannondale’s SystemSix: can what was billed as “the world’s fastest road bike” still cut it?

Coming with some big aero claims when it was launched back in 2018, Cannondale’s first aero road bike is well overdue an update

Tue, May 07, 2024 20:45
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Who needs on-bike headphones when you’ve got… a gramophone horn? Behold this custom Airnimal Joey with a musical twist

Ian Ashmeade's impressive self-built addition to his bike brings music to the lanes of Cambridgeshire via a gramophone horn he bought for a tenner

Sun, May 05, 2024 20:44
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What happened to the Rotor Uno groupset with hydraulic shifting?

Was this unusual groupset ahead of its time or was it always destined for obscurity? Take a look at some of the most unusual components of the past decade…

Tue, Apr 30, 2024 20:45
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Get a load of the Moulton Double Pylon, a 20-inch wheel bike with a £22,000 price tag

More than six decades after the launch of the first Moulton Bicycle, the English heritage brand continues to make special bikes, with special prices

Sun, Apr 28, 2024 20:44
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Is the District Carbon Trek’s strangest-ever road bike… or even its coolest?

A belt-drive single-speed with a dropped handlebar, the District Carbon was an interesting concept… but it didn’t stick around for long

Tue, Apr 23, 2024 20:45
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Whatever happened to the eccentric Viks GT, a Lamborghini-inspired city bike from Estonia?

Almost every part of this seat tube-less bike was unusual... a bit too unusual to take off and become popular with the general public it seems

Sun, Apr 21, 2024 20:44
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