Le Tour explained in 10 minutes
Don’t really understand the Tour de France? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Take ten minutes to study this cute little animation and you’ll be able to bluff your way through the basics… Allez!
Tall Bikes Will Save the World
Some people seem supernaturally powered from within. Driven by a desire to push the world in a better direction. To inspire and create. And the Zenga Brothers are just exactly those kind of people. That doesn’t make great grammatical sense but …
Brother in the Wild
Sometimes, amazing is right there on your doorstep. But for some reason, you’ve never found it. So it was with Boneshaker and the New Forest. What a place to ride! We loaded up our bikes last month and headed east …
Bespoked 2017
Bespoked is a wonderland of the world’s finest hand-built treasures, from one-offs like Dear Susan‘s beachcomber bike (below left) or this specially adapted bike for children with dwarfism (upper right), built by Curtis Bikes … to world-class adventure machines like this …
Danny’s Day Out
That MacAskill chap’s had a grand day out in the glorious greenery around Edinburgh. NB – cycling along railway lines is NOT recommended in the Highway Code. Or on giant hay bales for that matter. Or over houses. Now go …
We could be heroes
“Barry!” people keep shouting as I ride past. But I’m not Barry. Barry is the bike. A sleek, vintage machine named after the great Barry Hoban, who once held the record for the most stage wins in the Tour de France by a British …
The strange and beautiful at Bespoked
This weekend Boneshaker had a blast at Bespoked UK Handmade Bicycle show. It was a brilliant showcase of the range and quality of contemporary bicycle building. Our little stand was wedged in between Quoc Pham shoes, Brooks England’s bags and Vulpine’s …
Swaton Road
It was fall. I had just moved from Warsaw back to London, completing the cycle of getting sick of those cities and then missing them again. Loving them and hating them. Leaving, only to come back. Again and again. I had …
Pedal South
“Stepping off the plane in Deadhorse, AK, at the top of the world, we could see absolutely nothing but fog in all directions. It was just surreal, like being lost in a dream. The first week of the trip we …
