With unprecedented international participation in any custom bike show this century, Year Two for the Bespoked Dresden custom bicycle show, 18-20 October, builds on the success of its first edition in 2023.
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.
British builder Timothy Rowan took home ribbons for both Best New Builder and Best In Show at the 2015 Bespoked show, only months after he built his first bike, and had chosen to take the year off to focus on his work. HBG columnist Anna Schwinn visited his workshop in Kent and presents her in-depth talk with him.
Veteran Australian builder, Darrell McCulloch, describes a clever and innovative method of attaching bags to bicycles using technology proven in the motorcycle world.