Despite growing up without a bike of his own, Paul Ketelaar is now at the forefront of a movement seeking to remind people of the bikes of yesteryear. For a market Mr Ketelaar said was saturated by ...

In an era of global sourcing and computer-aided design, Gregory Townsend builds custom steel bicycle frames in his Monrovia garage. The 50-year-old British expatriate, who learned metal crafting in a ...

Choosing what material you want your frame to be made from is one of the key decisions to make when buying a bike. Bike frames have been made from a variety of different materials over the years, with ...

While the custom-tailored aspect is important to each of these manufacturers, these bikes also feel significantly different from others on the market. Some would even say that they have soul. The ...

For around a century, steel was the preferred material for bike frames. That changed towards the end of the 20th century, when first aluminium and then carbon fibre supplanted steel at the top of the ...