Golden Pliers Bike Shop Visit: Portland’s Home for Quality Repair and Nice Things

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Golden Pliers Bike Shop Visit: Portland’s Home for Quality Repair and Nice Things

Now that Golden Pliers has settled into their new Portland, OR location, it was time for us to make another visit. Just a few days after the MADE bike show concluded, Spencer Harding stepped into the welcoming arms of the Golden Pliers crew for a much-needed decompression from all the bike show hubbub. Below, let’s look inside one of our favorite bike shops that is filled with beautiful bikes, nice things, and wonderful humans…

2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 04: Ergon Showcase With Corrent Components, Kobel, Quokka, Rizzo, Scarab, Significant Other, and Sueess

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2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 04: Ergon Showcase With Corrent Components, Kobel, Quokka, Rizzo, Scarab, Significant Other, and Sueess

To help support our Bespoked Dresden coverage, Ergon bike components sponsored a special gallery with builds featuring their products, including some of our favorite saddles, grips, and bar tape. Below, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 04, our final report from the show,  features bicycles from Corrent Components, Kobel, Quokka, Rizzo, Scarab, Significant Other, and Sueess.  Scroll on down to take it all in!

2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 03: Abes, Actofive, Avalanche, Cicli Bonanno, Cyber Cycles, Garage 66, King Fabrications, Qvist, Raketa, Starfish, SON, and Tim Tas + Rek

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2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 03: Abes, Actofive, Avalanche, Cicli Bonanno, Cyber Cycles, Garage 66, King Fabrications, Qvist, Raketa, Starfish, SON, and Tim Tas + Rek

We still have loads more to share from an uber-busy weekend at the Bespoked artisan framebuilder and maker showcase in Dresden, Germany! Today, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 03 reportage features some stunning bicycles and products from Abes, Actofive, Avalanche, Cicli Bonanno, Cyber Cycles, Garage 66, King Fabrications, Qvist, Raketa, Starfish, SON, and Tim Tas + Rek. Continue reading below for a look at more stunning craftwork…

2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 02: Alonukis, Don Sebastiano, Dyed in the Wool, Huhn, Meerglas, Memento, Milli, Monopole, Purple Dog, Stolen Garage, True Love, Tune

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2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 02: Alonukis, Don Sebastiano, Dyed in the Wool, Huhn, Meerglas, Memento, Milli, Monopole, Purple Dog, Stolen Garage, True Love, Tune

We’re back from an uber busy weekend at the Bespoked artisan frame builder and maker showcase! Today, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 02 reportage features some stunning bicycles and products from Alonukis, Don Sebastiano, Dyed in the Wool, Huhn, Meerglas, Memento, Milli, Monopole, Purple Dog, Stolen Garage, True Love, and Tune. Check out all of the amazing work below!

2024 Bespoked Dresden: A Special Fern Bicycles Chuck Gravel Touring Bike

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2024 Bespoked Dresden: A Special Fern Bicycles Chuck Gravel Touring Bike

Amid our ongoing coverage of the Bespoked Dresden framebuilder and maker showcase, today we are featuring a very special bicycle made by Berlin-based Fern Bicycles equipped with Allygn racks and custom bags from Gramm Tourpacking. With design language referencing a late-1980s Toyota Pickup and mountain bikes of the same vintage, the build features both old and new elements with components from a long list of artisan fabricators like Cyber Cycles, Garbaruk, Tune, Velocity, SON, Gevenalle, Btchn’, and many more. We think this bike might be peak Fern. Continue reading below for the complete breakdown of this special Fern Bicycles Chuck gravel touring bike.

If you’re at Bespoked this weekend, make sure to swing by the Fern booth to check this out!

2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 01: Atherton, Ballern, Black Sheep, Curve, Good Grief, Ingrid, Parsec Objects, Quokka, Rossman, and Sturdy

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2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 01: Atherton, Ballern, Black Sheep, Curve, Good Grief, Ingrid, Parsec Objects, Quokka, Rossman, and Sturdy

This weekend, we’re in Dresden, Germany for the Bespoked artisan frame builder and maker showcase! Below, our 2024 Bespoked Dresden Part 01 reportage features some amazing bicycles and products from Atherton, Ballern, Black Sheep, Curve, Good Grief, Ingrid, Parsec Objects, Quokka, Rossman, and Sturdy. Scroll on down to take it all in!

Bespoked Dresden 2024: Drust Cycles Collapsible Touring Bike

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Bespoked Dresden 2024: Drust Cycles Collapsible Touring Bike

Yesterday, Josh bumped into Konstantin Drust of Drust Cycles on his way to Dresden for this year’s Bespoked framebuilder and maker showcase. Konstantin was picking up the luggage for his show bike from Kristin Heil’s Gramm Tourpacking workshop in Berlin. Josh was so enamored with the bike that he couldn’t wait to see it again at the show, and he documented it on the spot. Continue reading below for a detailed look at the Drust Cycles collapsible touring bike…

Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: King Fabrications

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: King Fabrications

Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the fourth chapter of this series, Petor joins Li King of Berkeley, Ca of King Fabrications. Petor chats with Li about their lifetime dream to become a welder and NorCal’s specific style as they prepare to head to Germany.

Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Good Grief Bicycles

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Good Grief Bicycles

Our European correspondent Petor Georgallou recently visited four North American framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. In the third chapter of this series, Petor joins Christopher Schmidt of Colorado Springs, CO, who builds bikes under the name Good Grief Bicycles. What’s it like to be a Native American framebuilder in the USA? Join Petor and Chris for a thought-provoking conversation and take a look behind the bikes at Good Grief…

Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Significant Other Bikes

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Bespoked X SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship 2024: Significant Other Bikes

In the next installment of a four-part series, our European correspondent Petor Georgallou joins Significant Other Bikes of Denver, Colorado. Petor recently took a gonzo-style roadtrip through North America to visit four framebuilders who have been awarded SRAM’s Inclusivity Scholarship to attend Bespoked in Dresden, Germany, on October 18–20. Take a peek behind the bikes made by Ashley King at Significant Other