If there was ever an Australian marathon MTB/gravel race you should add to your bucket list, it would be Western Australia’s Seven. Circle Custom’s Matthew Andrew was inspired to build the perfect vehicle for it, and this drop bar 29er is it.
Back in 2014, we featured a monstrously innovative downhill MTB: Paul Brodie’s 69er. After a fresh restoration, it debuted at the 2020 BC Bike Show as a proud statement of his incredible talent as a designer and fabricator. Cycle EXIF is proud to present, in Paul’s own words, the story of that process.
We finished 2019 featuring a Utah frame builder and, coincidentally, the first bike of 2020 also hails from the Beehive State. Jon Hanson and his…
One of the most interesting aspects of Grinduro is the opportunity offered to a selection of custom frame builders to create their vision of the…
Ibis Cycles has a 30-plus year history yet continues to offer a contemporary catalog of products that reveal their dedication to the original MTB pursuit.…
The klunker blazed the trail for modern mountain bike design and subsequent bikes were more purpose-designed and built, yet handmade in steel. After a few…
Today, ‘bespoke’ can refer to anything from cars to software, although it’s originally derived from the British tailoring profession. It’s bandied about in the bicycle…
The Scottish round of this year’s Grinduro event was held a few weeks ago on the Isle of Arran, and it was a complete success,…
Situated at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado city of Durango is referred to as a mountain bikers paradise. One local frame builder,…
All manner of plastic bikes are currently riding through the Alsace region during the fifth stage of the 2019 Tour de France but, for the…
While the rest of the cycling world is going gah-gah over carbon fiber wunderbikes, data trackers and power meters during the third stage of Le…
Compared to a road-hugging racer, the full-suspension mountain bike is a complicated and constantly-evolving combination of geometries and genres. Volumes could be filled with the…
The dust has settled after a momentous Bespoked Bristol show, which was a sign of things to come. The advantages of technology are certainly making…
How many of you have wondered what would happen if Speedvagen built a MTB? You could bet the results would be just as spectacular as…
Leave it to the Euro crowd to come up with quirky variations of sports for everyone to get involved with. Germany’s Mawis Bikes just finished…
