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Tickets on sale for 2014 Bespoked UK Handmade Bicycle Show

Top handmade bike builders from UK and the world heading for London in April

 

Tickets are now on sale for Bespoked 2014 – The UK Handmade Bicycle Show at Lee Valley Velopark, London on April 11-13.

The show moves this year from its birthplace in Bristol up to That London and the Lee Valley Velopark, the cycling venue for the London 2012 Olympics.

What hasn’t changed, though is the focus of the event: beautiful hand-built and custom bikes from top UK builders and also from Italy, the USA, Taiwan and South Africa, plus fine components, clothing and accessories.

The exhibitor list reads like a who’s who of British framebuilding, from monuments of the bespoke bike scene like Rourke, Woodrup and Roberts to newcomers like Toad Custom Cycles and Richard Craddock, the carbon fibre specialist featured in Bespoked’s framebuilder of the week spot this week.

From outside the UK there will be bikes from Australia’s Baum Cycles, Cyfac from France, Italian builders including D’Accordi, Faggin and Pegoretti, Igleheart from Portland, Oregon and Tsubasa of Japan among many others.

Organiser Phil Taylor says he’s confidently expecting this to be the best Bespoked ever, and with the line-up he’s assembled we’re almost as excited as he is.

Advance tickets cost £7.50 (+50p booking fee) for a day - £10 on the door - and £17.50 (+50p booking fee) for all three days rather than £20.

Public opening times
Friday April 11: 14.00-19.00
Saturday April 12: 09.30-18.00
Sunday April 13: 10.00-16.30

Tickets are available from http://billetto.co.uk/bicycleshow2014.

For more detais of the show, see the Bespoked 2014 website.

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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Blackhound | 10 years ago
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Yes, but the Derby velodrome does not open until later in the year. Perhaps next year  3

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Benjamin Hall | 10 years ago
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It's in the wrong city....

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