Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life
Pony Bikes Peugeot

Pony Bikes Peugeot

Sasha Strickland loves a challenge. The proprietor of Melbourne’s Pony Bikes has an uncanny knack for transforming some of the city’s most horrible bikes into things of beauty. Her latest project consisted of converting a Peugeot road frame to a three-speed fixed gear.

Pony Bikes Enigma

It’s called an Enigma because it’s one of those frames one happens across on eBay with a vague description by which you’re captivated enough to buy because it’s cheap and no-one else wants it and the seller can’t give you any more information about it (they can’t even remember where they got it) and when…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Pony Bikes Super Deluxe

How many of us can remember our first bike? For many of us, learning to ride is one of our earliest acquired skills, so it’s…

Pony Bikes Tricycle

Hang on to your wooden balance bikes: Sasha from Melbourne’s Pony Bikes has just concocted what could be the coolest kid’s tricycle ever. A local…

Pony Bikes Rondell

Bicycle restoration can be a very rewarding experience, but sometimes it’s better to hand the job to a professional and let them deal with the…

Hillman Club Racer

Sasha, the woman behind Pony Bikes, has kicked the quintessential Melbourne street bike up a couple of gears with this latest build: a vintage Hillman…

Pony Bikes Hillbrick Track

While Australia certainly doesn’t have the same number of custom frame builders as, say, the US or the UK, there definitely exists some luminaries. Men…