Bespoked is now the biggest handmade bike show in the world, following the winding up of NAHBS. Last year it was held in Harrogate, but this year the show relocated to the Olympic velodrome at Lee Valley, London, to allow bicycle-starved members of the public from the capital and far beyond to ogle a dizzying array of custom bikes. We’ve already brought you a thorough rundown of the best-in-show winning 3D-printed time trial bike from Sturdy Cycles, and now we’re going to treat you to a further look at five of our favourites from across the bicycle spectrum. You won’t find these atop our lists of best road bikes, best commuter bikes, or best gravel bikes, not because they aren’t exceptional machines, but because they are all unique.
Lord Antur
Cast your mind back a few years and bicycle divergence was at its peak. You had the best road bikes split into the best aero road bikes, the best lightweight bikes, and the best endurance road bikes before you even thought about sprinkling in the best gravel bikes (which has itself further split into the best gravel race bikes and those for more general use).
Based in Cardiff, this Antur model from the brand’s adventure collection aims to be as many bikes as possible in a single build, which is why you’ll see an “N-1” graphic painted on the inside of the chainstay, which counters the more common ‘N+1’ phrase of how many bikes one should own, where N is the current number owned.
With geometry that can handle the rough stuff without being a slug on the tarmac, this Antur also utilises sliding dropouts to allow the owner to either run the bike geared, in this guise with a SRAM Rival AXS groupset, or singlespeed for the last word in utility. Or fixed, if they happen to come over slightly unhinged.
Pura Velo wheels are shod with some multi-purpose Hutchinson Touareg tyres, and the build is finished with an Enve fork and Easton finishing kit. The paint, a Jackson Pollock-inspired splatterpiece, is courtesy of maestro Jack Kingston, also responsible for the paint job on the Feather we’ve got below.
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