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Bespoked Travel Diary Pt1: Berlin and Dresden
A couple of weeks ago Josh and I hopped on a plane to do our first site visit at the Dresden Flughafen venue for this year’s show. It would have been a missed opportunity not to stop in Berlin on…
Where does innovation come from?
Gary Ewing of Auckland Cycleworks, winner of the Mike Burrows Award at last years' Bespoked, talks about innovation, surplus disruptive creativity disorder and Lego Technic.
Sideways reviews Bespoked 2022
Bespoked SRAM Inclusivity Scholarship Awardee and winner of Best Off-Road Bike Award from last years Bespoked, Viola Townsend of Sideways Bike gives her "few words" on Bespoked 2022.
Albion Black Friday Fixathon
On Friday the 25th of November, 2022 I cycled across town for the only Black Friday event I could even pretend to care about. Black Friday traditionally marks the point in the year where businesses sell off stock at a…
Bespoked 2022 Review
For 2022, our post-pandemic comeback show was held in the track center of the Olympic velodrome at London’s lee valley velopark, a venue we’ve not used since 2014. It was incredible to see a standard of work on show that…
The unique initiative, which has already supported 6 cyclists from diverse backgrounds in their ultra-distance cycling journeys, has just launched its search for new recipients. Applications for the 2022/23 season opened on 3 October 2022 and close on 16 October…
Where even wolves are scared to shit
While the war in Ukraine continues, the focus in the UK media has been on military advances or threats of nuclear escalation. However, ordinary civilians have had to continue living their lives, and Ukrainian society carries on. I was…
The Story of World Bicycle Relief’s Buffalo Bike
This year we are super excited to be part of a unique coffee and bicycle collaboration. When we heard that SRAM wanted to bring coffee along with the indestructible World Bicycle Relief Buffalo Bike, we realised we had a great…
Meet the winners of SRAM Bespoked Inclusivity Scholarship
When we were putting together the SRAM Bespoked Inclusivity Scholarship, there was reasonable doubt that we would receive enough good applicants to fill the available spaces. Fortunately we were completely wrong! Having received an unprecedented number of applications, we had…