The Bespoked show has returned to London this year, bringing with it a selection of the best and most out-there bike tech and niche builds.
Alongside custom frames from niche bike builders, there are tech highlights such as the Zero Lag KOM hub made in the Peak District, Japanese thru-axles for any standard, and a cut-away Rohloff hub, showing exactly why it’s not a good idea to pull one apart to see what’s inside.
Star of the Condor stand was its custom-painted Italia RC, complete with gold leaf details.
The gold leaf even extended to the inside faces of the fork legs.
Not to mention the Condor logos.
And the Clerkenwheels reference to Condor’s Grey’s Inn Road home in London.
There were some lovely Condor bikes. I’ll take you through them. This was a classic steel Acciaio road model.
And a Campagnolo equipped Acciaio Stainless.
Finally, the steel Acciaio Integrale, with you guessed it, integrated cabling, rounding out the Condor bikes.
Singular had a 32-inch gravel bike on show, although the brand’s owner, Sam Alison, suggested that it only really worked geometry-wise for six-foot-plus riders.
2.4-inch tyres on 32-inch wheels should give you plenty of roll-over.
But they need big clearance behind the bottom bracket, check those nice Hope cranks too.
Taiwanese brand Croder had some nice carbon cranks on its stand.
Plus carbon aero chainrings and alloy oval rings.
Some retro tech in the form of the TJ Cycles Flying Gate, a design first developed in the 1930s.
Quality lugwork paired with a carbon cage SRAM Blackbox mechanical derailleur.
As well as a custom quill stem.
This KOM rear hub is assembled in the…
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