We are pleased to announce the launch of the first Yorkshire Bicycle Show to take place in Leeds Town Hall over the second weekend of September 2013. The Show, the first of its kind in the North of England, will feature some of the best handmade frames, cycling innovations, accessories and apparel on the market.
Spin started on friday for this long bank holiday weekend, location was in the best place at The Old Truman Brewery. We had a lot of different company in one roof and good to see all different type’s of bike related thing’s, from bike frame’s to bike clothes and even had a mini cinema that was powered by bike’s. Rollapaluza was there to give people a good show and made people come in and check out the whole event. Music was pumping all day to give a good vibe’s. Sunday like always the street’s was busy and had people coming in checking the show out with this great weather. I didn’t take much picture’s as I wasn’t feeling well.
Keep rolling, rolling , rolling!
Nice Tee shirt.
Bike power.
Busy sunday!
Make sure to check out The Old Truman Brewery, Shoreditch next week on 3rd, 4th and 5th of May, for Spin London urban cycle show. Everything to do with bike related is in one building, make sure to get your ticket now. This will be a MUST GO event and yes 14 Bike co will be there too. So see you there!
This year had a good turn out for Bespoked Bristol, with the dull weather and some rain going on. It didn’t stop people coming down to see the show, friday the door’s opened to the public and at that point we just saw the tip of the iceberg come saturday there was just under five thousands visitors. Sunday felt it was a family day out we had the next generation looking at the bike’s and getting some idea’s on how it works!
People from the other side of the room saw the new 14R Fluro yellow and walked down to check it out, not only they saw the 14R but even the 14 Bike co road bike’s had some love, the stainless road had some good interested. As I looked over to Ted’s stand there was a lot of people standing around him, as he talks about his amazing bike build. We had a great time in Bristol and saw more than last year, thank you to every one that came down to talk to us.
14 Bike co x Royce Black edition
The dropout on each frame has a date of the bike thats been made and a personal number.
Mikey’s custom saddle by Superbeau.
Getting busy.
Royce chain ring, 104t.
Rotor and Royce was with us on the same stand.
Something for the kid’s.
Ted James, off road bike
Teds custom disc break.
Bambo is very strong.
This person will be going around the world, summer this year!
The 14R TRACK and LOW PRO for this year come with the refreshed Royce dropouts and are made from Reynolds 853 double butted aero tubing.
For Bespoked Bristol we chose to paint Mikey’s Low-Pro in the same Fluro Yellow, which our team rider Oscar Khan used to have on his ESB. The down tube decals are part of a sheet of decals that each customer gets when they order a 14R. Being able to customise the final details of your custom made 14R is something that is very important to us!
The Jet Black 14R Track has been built up using the new Royce High Flange double fixed black anodised track hubs, which for the first time ever are available in anodised jet black. We are also proud to be stocking the new Royce Track Cranks that are also available in jet black. The crank arms are available in various sizes; in a 144bcd as well as the tri lobe bottom BB’s and chainrings in sizes 46T – 50T (larger sizes are available on special order).
As always, the 14R’s are fillet brazed using Reynolds 853, accept a 27.2mm seatpost, an English threaded Bottom Bracket, an 1 1/8th integrated head tube and have the all new numbered Royce 14R stainless 316 steel drop outs.
ALL for £795.00, with two carbon fork options available. Please email us for more details at sales@14bikeco.com
www.14bikeco.com | photos by Giles Smith
Monday evening Boiler Room held an with Red Stripe-make session 007 and 14 Bike Co, at a secret location in East London. Everything that night was broadcasted live, meaning the whole event was filmed live and available for anyone to watch online. There were four DJs playing live back to back; XXXY, Steve Braiden, Midland and Paul Woolford. Andy Ellis built up five special Red Stripe bikes (one for each of the DJ’s) on the stage behind the DJ set and we also had Ted James doing welding. And did I mention the free beer? What a great night!
A packed room as I arrived.
Andy on stage as the crowd watched intently
Yeah, I think they like the music or Andy just finished building one of the bikes.
Here is one of the finished DJ bikes.
Ted looking cool with them shades on.
We would like to thank Red Stripe and Boiler room for letting us take in this project and making it happen. Remember to drink responsibly and don’t drink and ride!
We were recently at Eton College together with Illustrated People for a school exhibit. It was great to have some of our best looking bikes on show in such a nice environment. We even brought our polo bike along to show the horse polo playing boys from Eton. Check out some of the shots we took on the night below.
John and Andy talking bikes with the Eton boys
Our newest 14 Grand Prix road bike was popular on the night
As was Duncan’s classic lotus f1 road bike
The 14 Polo Bike was also looking great
If you would like to know more about any of these bikes, or what else we can offer, please talk to us at sales@14bikeco.com
Bespoked Bristol 2013 tickets are now on sale to buy. You can get an early bird ticket for one day for £7.50 (+booking fee) or a weekend ticket £13 (+booking fee) online only. At the door, tickets will cost £10 for the day and £15 for the weekend. Show times are:
Friday 12th April – 5:00pm – 8:00pm,
Saturday 13th April – 9:30 – 6:00pm,
Sunday 14th April – 9:30 – 5:00pm
Last year went very well. A lot of people came down from all over the country and there was lots to see with a lot of brands presenting, so don’t mis it this year!
Earlier this week we were at the London Bike Show at the Excel. It was packed with people and everyone at their stands was looking fresh and ready to talk. I saw some pretty amazing looking bikes, from TT to track bikes and from city to off-road monsters. One of the highlights though was seeing Martyn Ashton (road bike party) pulling some tricks on his trail bike. I had a blast but make sure you leave lots of time if you want to see everything thats in there.
Nice track bike from Pinarello
The TT bike team sky rides on the tours
The most ridiculous gear ratio I’ve ever seen.
Definitely getting one of these
Martyn Ashton doing what he does best.
The first of the 2013 Red Hook Criterium ‘Champion Series’ has been announced. It’s taking place in Brooklyn, NY and is the first in a series of 4. The other 3 locations will be announced later this year.
Impetus Momenta took place last night at south bank center, with a decent amount of people showing up.
It started with Andy talking about the history of fixed bike and how it all began, with Ty from the foot down telling a funny story on how he got into fixed bike and why he does his blog. Ted came out talking about his love for building bikes and the technical parts of it. Jonathan showed us some photos that he took from the last four years around the fixed gear scene and how it all grew. Patrick closed off the talk by showing us two films that he has done this year. One of them was the full length feature of Asmawa and the other one was his new video, Galibier.
Bespoked Bristol returns on 12th – 14th April 2013 at The Passenger Shed Brunel’s Old Station. But tickets won’t be available until January 2013. Head over to the website to see more info. Hope to see everyone there!
Here are some pictures from Bespoked Bristol , which happened in March this year. People came from all over the country to see the best hand made bicycles from around the world. There were many big brands at Bespoked, such as Cinelli, Brother, Feather cycle, Tokyo Fixed Gear and many others including ourselves and Royce UK. Our stand featured the beautiful Hanbury travel bike with Gator mesh, and was also the first time we introduced many of you to our 14R.
We hope to see you there again next year!
Look Mum No Hands held a book launch Last night, show casing the Made in England - the artisan behind the handbulit bicycle book. Also there was an auction, it was a one off photo of each the frame builders, catching them at their prime.
This will be an important date to save, December 6th. It will be a presentation about the history of Fixed Gear. The ethos of riding a fixed gear bike on the street, It’s evolution, design and the surrounding culture. The people that will be doing it, will be Andy Ellis, Patrick Seabase, Tyron Francis, JW and Ted James. Each talk will be broken down to details from when fixed gear was started to the present.
More information and to buy ticket click here.
