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The Radavist’s Top Ten Beautiful Bicycles of 2023

Reportage By: John Watson

The Radavist’s Top Ten Beautiful Bicycles of 2023

We’ve got over 17 years of Beautiful Bicycles in our archives and each year we like to look back at the previous twelve months of coverage and decipher what you, the audience, liked the most. To do this, we look at the page views for each and every Beautiful Bicycles gallery. Then we look at comments and internet chatter. Once we cull all this data, we’re left with a solid list of bikes. We love compiling this data as it helps us determine what bikes you like to see the most and thus, informs what bikes we document in the future.

Without further ado, let’s get to it!

A Simple Solution for a Simple Problem: A Shovel Research Rod Steward Review

Radar By: john watson

A Simple Solution for a Simple Problem: A Shovel Research Rod Steward Review

Does it get much better than small makers addressing niche demands within a niche sector of the bike industry? I don’t think so. One of my favorite parts about running this website is showcasing and highlighting cottage industry bike businesses. Shovel Research is a small machine and fabrication shop that makes well-designed products that address a niche demand. One of which is its Rod Steward, a bag support designed for the Fab’s Chest by Ron’s Bikes, but as I found out on my Rivendell Bombadil, it works well with a Rivendell Sackville BagBoy bag.

Let’s check out a quick review below…

I Don’t Want Anything That’s Fast: The Bikes of Spencer Connell

Reportage By: Mitchell Connell

I Don’t Want Anything That’s Fast: The Bikes of Spencer Connell

Spencer and I have been riding bikes together for 15 years. Since then, Spencer developed a career building and repairing guitars in Nashville, Tennessee. Back when we were younger, we spent a lot of time hanging around our local bike shop,  Halcyon, and working on our bikes on their community stands. His bikes are deeply practical, very unique, and kind of clapped out. I’m not here to tell anyone what to do, but I wish more people built and rode bikes like Spencer. Recently I went to Nashville, and I took some time to document his bikes and ask him a few questions about his builds. Below, let’s check out what he had to say…

Origins and Activations: How Ronnie Romance Found Inspiration at Blue Lug Bike Shops

Reportage By: Ronnie Romance

Origins and Activations: How Ronnie Romance Found Inspiration at Blue Lug Bike Shops

This is a long story. It is a story of Blue Lug‘s influence on me, an interview with the co-founder, and hopefully it will lend some inspiration to American bike shops.

The photos you are seeing are of Blue Lug employee bikes that I shot one after another as we visited each location. We thought it would be cool to document the personal bikes of the build artists whose handiwork you see each day on the Blue Lug Instagram softcore porn for bike nerds.

We will begin with the story of my 650b leather and canvas activation as a lead in…

Rapha Rapha
Janus Cycle Group Janus Cycle Group
MicroShift MicroShift
Thomson Thomson
1Up 1Up
Industry Nine Industry Nine
Paul Paul
State Bicycle Co State Bicycle Co
Kona Kona
Rivendell Rivendell
SimWorks SimWorks
Ritchey Logic Ritchey Logic