King Off The Street: Killenbike 27.5 Dirt Tourer
It’s only been a week since we featured the Bondi Blue Killenbike All-Roadster, but things have been buzzing around the Newtown workshop of Sean Killen, and…
It’s only been a week since we featured the Bondi Blue Killenbike All-Roadster, but things have been buzzing around the Newtown workshop of Sean Killen, and…
The coastal route from Sydney to Melbourne isn’t called the Princes Highway for anything. It’s the Australian classic ‘surfari’, taking in some of the most…
The other night I swung past the Newtown workshop of Sean Killen, one of Sydney’s new contingent of custom frame builders. He’s been run off…
Mention the word ‘Titanium’ in certain circles and you’ll see grown men glaze over, drifting off into romantic, wistful state of Bike Lust. Thankfully it…
It’s nearly a year since I traveled to the UK and attended a frame building course with Downland Cycles, and until now I didn’t even…
Building a custom bicycle frame requires not a small amount of engineering prowess. Metallurgy notwithstanding, there’s stress and fatigue testing, and ergonomics. On top of…
Custom bikes come in all manner of shapes, sizes, and colours. When I first came across Andy Rowan and his Myrrh Cycles on Instagram, it…
The skingrowsback PAK30 was a constant companion on my UK expedition in December last year. With multiple international airport transfers and journeys that included Budapest,…
Victorian framebuilder Ewen Gellie is a mountain man, through and through. From his workshop and property, located on Skyline Road, about 50kms from Melbourne, he…
Yesterday was an auspicious day for the Clarence Street Cyclery family: it was the launch of a limited edition kit that has been produced in…
In a charity shop about 25 years ago, I picked up Robert Shea’s Shiké novels, one of the most epic samurai novels you could ever…
Two worlds have been colliding for the past year, spawning a slow-motion collaboration between the traditional skills of Demon Frameworks’ Tom Warmerdam and Melbourne’s futuristic…
Back in March, Brisbane’s extremely hard-working Pushies Galore team hosted the first of their Master Series shows, and it featured Geoff Scott, one of Australia’s…
Perth’s Plane Frameworks have been turning out some spectacular products lately, each one perfectly fitted to their customer. The West Australian workshop is certainly spearheading…
In this internet age, it is often hard to support The Little Guy. However, when The Little Guy is doing some impressive things that should make…