Another great Bespoked Bristol Show, filled with exciting bikes and passionate people, it was even more popular than last year with the show reaching capacity by 12pm on the Saturday! Our stand was busy with customer's getting up close to a large range of Velo Orange items including racks, mudguards, bars, leather goods, pedals, bottle cages and more. It was great putting faces to names and hearing the enthusiasm customer's have for their bikes. We had a couple of special builds planned for the stand and were pleased to see them go down well - Alex Hatfield's Lee Cooper built Chrome Porteur (Bespoked Bristol 2011 Best Utility Bike Award Winner) was flanked by our recently designed Hobo Bushwacker 650b MTB, created in collaboration with Hobo Bicycles; worlds apart but both frames were hand-made by talented frame builder Lee Cooper.
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Both featured Velo Orange items; the Chrome Porteur sporting Constructeur Rear Rack, Porteur Front Rack and Chain guard whereas the Hobo Bushwacker featured VO Diagonale 650b Rims, Quick Release Skewers, Compact Double Crank set (with inner placed on outer spider), Grand Cru BB, Grand Cru Seatpost, Grand Cru Mirror Polished Aheadet, Ahead Stem & Sew-On Elk-hide Covers. As far as we were aware (and could see), this was the only 650b MTB at the show, though there were plenty of Touring/Rando in that wheel size and we were pleased to hear that some show goers had come specifically with an interest in that size of bike.
Other noteworthy builds at the show were other Hobo Bicycles builds including the Weirdy Beardy (which you've featured before) and their Cous'n Jack Track Bike. This featured Velo Orange Singlespeed Cranks, Grand Cru BB and Grand Cru Mirror Polished Threaded Headset.
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Brian Rourke had an excellent stainless steel Tourer on display with had masked decals that revealed the polished tubes underneath and a pair of PBP rims laced up.
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Tom Donhou had a great selection of builds including this turquoise delight which had fine painted details on the VO 36mm Polished Mudguards (not vinyl) and sported carbon slats on the rear rack.
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Ricky Feather had a similarly coloured build that look splendid with it's hand made copper mudguards. There are many more highlights from the likes of Saffron Frameworks (stunning green build which won Best Utility), Ted James Design (Awesome stainless 29er MTB), Swallow, Winter Bicycles, Field Cycles, Shand, Faggin, Demon Frameworks and more so I suggest you check out some of the reports and images from the show if you haven't already:
Wow! Those are some beautiful bikes. Thanks for the pointer.
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