The list of award recipients at the 2017 Bespoked

HBG’s Paul Skilbeck set off this weekend to the Bespoked show in Bristol, UK, where he’s reporting from the hall floor about all the exciting happenings at the UK’s own handmade bicycle show. Read on for more about hand-carved lugs, stainless tubing, engraved saddles, titanium, drillium, and Brexit.

Anna Schwinn visited Bespoked for the first time last year and was delighted by many of the bikes she saw there. In a two-part series Anna talks about the companies whose preparations she's been following, going in to the 2017 event.

The award-winning British frame maker, Enigma, will become more easily available to U.S. customers with the addition of Ohio-based distributor British Cycle Imports.

The second part of an interview with Reynolds managing director, Keith Noronha, discussing tubing and frame construction standards on both sides of the Atlantic.

Reynolds managing director Keith Noronha, a veteran in the bicycle tubing industry, discusses issues at play on both sides of the Atlantic.

British crank company Middleburn, in business for more than 25 years, has firmly established itself at the higher end of the market, and offers both enduring favourites while also keeping pace with the constant change in industry standards.

Eccentricity can sometimes appear in the most normal of guises, but while British builder Petor Georgallou might be mistaken in San Francisco for the average techster just in need of a beard trim, scratch the surface and you'll see he's anything but.