Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life
Drink It In: Noble Cycles Bordeaux Road

Drink It In: Noble Cycles Bordeaux Road

Belgium has always been at the forefront of excellent cycling, and Nicolas Noble is a custom frame builder who is obviously channeling that same energy. His work, predominantly high-end road bikes and racers, are always magnificently finished.

Velvet Revolver: C-Bear Bottom Bracket Review

Velvet Revolver: C-Bear Bottom Bracket Review

Bottom brackets are a tricky thing to write about. They get installed in your frame, you use them until they start to feel rough, exhibit play or start getting noisy, then you replace them, right? But what if none of that happened?

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Jaegher Phantom

If you didn’t know any better, you’d assume Belgium’s Jaegher Cycles were another well-branded startup with a frame builder on board. Jaegher was actually founded…

Noble Cycles Sugar Candy

It seems Belgium’s custom motorcycle scene is alive and well, with Fred Bertrand’s ‘Krugger’ shop tackling challenges like BMW’s new K1600 and turning it into…

Noble Cycles Spirito Libero

The EuroVelo cycle routes, when completed in 2020, will total over 70,000 kilometres of trail, through 42 countries. It’s a series of 14 long distance…

Eddy Merckx MX Leader 25th anniversary

At the 2014 Sydney Classic Bicycle Show one bike stood saddle and handlebars above the rest, even though it wasn’t part of the concourse d’elegance.…

Noble Cycles Cardio Road

One of my Christmas stocking gifts was William Fotheringham’s Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. It chronicles The Cannibal’s fearsome domination of professional cycling during the 60s and…

Bike-be-que

Down Under, inviting a few mates around for a few beers and a barbie is social event that can take place on any day of…

Mcfly Custom Prototype

The spirit of ingenuity and engineering is not dead in Belgium, as Antoine Hotermans illustrates with this homemade frame. Viewed as a collection of individual…