Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Custom BMX bikes are bicycles that have been modified or built from scratch to meet the specific needs and preferences of the rider. These bikes are often tailored to suit the individual rider’s style, size, and riding discipline, whether that be street riding, park riding, or racing.

Custom builds often feature a mix of aftermarket and stock parts, which can be chosen based on the rider’s desired performance characteristics, such as weight, strength, and durability.

Riders can choose from a wide range of colors, graphics, and custom components to create a bike that is unique and stands out from the crowd. But building a custom bike requires a significant amount of knowledge and skill, as well as access to specialized tools and equipment.

Hutch Trick Star

Hutch is an ‘old school’ BMX marque that, due to Richard Hutchin’s innovation, his focus on quality and marketing nous, garnered a cult following. His…

Dirt Bike Co. Custom

The New Zealand BMX scene is a tight crew. There’s a camaraderie, culture and collective spirit between the riders, photographers and supporters that one would…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Standard 125

The Standard Byke Company originated from a lack of quality US-made BMX components in the late 1980s. Rick Moliterno had been riding for Haro for…

Chase Hawk’s Cult OS

I suppose Chase Hawk’s parents had some idea what they were getting themselves in for when they named their baby. If I were Chases’s parents,…

Fit Bike Co Lurch

After all the studio shots and images soaked with atmospheric depth of field, there’s nothing I enjoy seeing more than a bike that has been…

Carson Leh’s Deluxe TECH2 BMX

While the photos of Carson Leh’s custom leather saddle and the design and manufacturing process whizzed around the bike blogs just before Christmas last year,…

Terrible One Custom

A great thing about steel is that the more you beat it into submission, the better it looks. Joe Stevenson’s Terrible One is not only…

Intense Podium Pro Cruiser

One of the most iconic marques of off-road cycling in the last 20 years has to be Intense Cycles. Anyone who remembers the sight of…

SE Bikes OM Flyer

When it comes to SE Bikes’ OM Flyer, it’s actually better to dwell on the past rather than focus on the future. The re-issued classic…

Zodiac Quamen Clad G8

Flatland is the black sheep of the BMX fraternity. Its practitioners are often loners, frequenting car parks alone for hours, perfecting their moves which Wikipedia…