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Cyclist Award Best Road Bike: Rob English, from Oregon, brought this stunning mixed materials bike, all polished Reynolds 953 steel and carbon fibre
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Rob English grew up in the UK, went to Cambridge University and now works out of Oregon in the States. His bikes have garnered awards the world over, and he's not short of a few decent time trial results himself either
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Pictures don't do the craftsmanship justice
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Cyclist Award for Best Road Bike: London-based builders Caren Hartley (Hartley Cycles) Matt McDonough (Talbot Frameworks) have paired up to create a new small batch brand, Isen - olde English for 'iron'.
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Cyclist Award for Best Road Bike: Ironbridge was created by Bicycles by Design duo Rob Wade and Pete Bird. The ethos was to make largely stock but handmade frames at reasonable prices. Work will be contracted out to other framebuilders, which will help 'spread the love and keep people in business,' says Rob Wade.
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The fork crown of the Ironbridge is crisp, clean and wonderfully retro
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The brake bridge of the Ironbridge is a work of machining and brazing art. It depicts the iron bridge that spans the river next to Bicycle By Design's facility in Shropshire
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Laubgravur is a style of German leaf engraving popular onantique rifles and pistols
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Laubgravur is a style of German leaf engraving popular onantique rifles and pistols
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The full Winter bike
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The Brooks saddle underwent the same exceptioanl engraving treatment
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As did the Dura-Ace chainset. Phenomenal
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And the rear mech
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Caren Hartley's 26" wheeled All Road Adventure Tourer
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The paint is copper leaf with a candy fade, and looked insane in the light.
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Rob English's ultra-practical road-urban-tourer-cargo (our words). Note frame-mounted pump - expect to see more of these this year
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And this insane TT bike. Who said steel wasn't fast?
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Ricky Feather brought a bunch of bikes on his return, and as expected the finishing was second to none
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One of the first frames we've seen to utilise the Direct Mount on Shimano's new Dura-Ace 9100 series. Bravo
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Beautiful and practical
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More stunners from Ricky Feather, who swept the awards' boards along with Rob English
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The reason we chose Isen as one of our three Best Road Bikes is becuase it's a very thoughtfully made range. First, Hartley and McDonough have created their own carbon fork, and second, the bike comes in two sizes, 700c and 650c, the latter wheel size appearing on bikes under 53cm (at the customer's request) to cater for shorter riders - limiting toe overlap whilst keeping proportions and handling
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Caren Hartley's signature brake bridge on the Isen, her collaboration with Talbot Frameworks
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Condor Stainless Acciaio
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Condor custom Leggero
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Condor has resurrected the Paris Galibier, a bike originally built by Henry Rensch in the 1940s, who was a neighbour of Condor founder Monty Norman
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Clothing brand Vulpine's owner, Nick Hussey, had this worked up for him by August Cycles
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Toad Custom Cycles stainless steel, bi-lam racer
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Relative newcomer Adeline O'Moreau is making some superb steel under Mercredi Bikes. She learnt the craft at the Bicycle Academy in Frome, Somerset
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Mercredi Bikes' colour matching for dayz. Check out this Silca frame pump
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Californian builder Craig Calfee brought two bikes, this his Manta Pro with his micro rear suspension
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We've not seen Duzil Frameworks before, but this bike was mighty impressive
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This custom stem from Duzil is a neat touch, and none too easy to fabricate
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Granule Frameworks from Tenterten, Kent
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Nice inside fork detail from Granule
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Metier Velo, from Salt Lake City, USA, are making printed titanium lugged bikes with carbon tubes
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The finish on these lugs is matt, but beign ti that could be buffed to a shine
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Californian builder Craig Calfee brought two bikes, this his Manta Pro with his micro rear suspension
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Big points on the headbadge, printed stright into the tube
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Are you an elegant handyman? Do you need a comprable steed to get around town?
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...then we have the solution for you and your tools.
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There was a rainbow of colour on offer, this time from Evanson Bike Works. Wide tyre clearances were big on the agenda this year at Bespoked
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Nevi, from Italy, make some seriously agressively looking titanium bikes, with some (presumably) bone-rattling all-ti forks
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Invicta bikes from Downland Cycles proved that orange and blue are great friends
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Rourke was on show with its Hope (of the components) green racer, amongst other bikes
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French stalwarts Cyfac made this incredible thoughtful adventure-cum-town bike
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The mudguards are bespoke carbon and integrated into the frame and fork
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Shand Cycles 650b adventure road kicks it with the voluminous tan wall tyres
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King is a builder from Holland. This carbon frame is made by Sarto from Italy, however, to King's specification. The whole build weighed 4.6kg
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The low weight was helped by component choices, here a seatmast topper/saddle combo from Slovenian based Berk Composites. Great name
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McfK is not a brand you'll see often, but it makes some exceptional high-end carbon components, along with AX-Lightness
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Save weight by removing unnecessary cable
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This is a ti frame made by King itself
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Ellis Briggs' old-school tourer is a thing of vintage beauty
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All we know is that Robi Stolz are Berliners, and this bike has a clock in the handlebars
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...see, and wooden grips
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Swallow's tourer is something special
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New builder Mawis showing off some nicely executed titanium
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And a very stiff looking fork
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Sven Cycles bikes are also pretty
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Nope, it's all carbon, it's called the Phantom, a frame weighs 750g and it's made by a Czech company called Duratec, which has been quietly making bikes for nearly two decades. This has carbon fibres that run from the rear dropout all the way up the seatstay, along top tube, round the headtube and back down to the other dropout
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What's that, aluminim lugged, carbon tubed bikes are back?
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Duratec makes all it's own moulds in house. All of them are polished on the inside like this, to ensure smooth moulding
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Royce made Chris Boardman's Hour record hubs. Not much has changed in aesthetics, nor quality since those days: Royce hubs are arguably still the most covetable spinners in existence
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This was built for one tall customer. That's a 220mm headtube
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Swallow had this gargantuan headtube especially made by Reynolds then machined to be tapered by a local firm
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T Red's titanium road bike looked mean and very keen
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T Red had an awesome looking clamping mechanism on display, and some beautiful bead-blasted graphics
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Fifty One bike's owner, Aidan Duff, an ex-Continental Pro, made this for himself. And he'll make one for you over in Dublin for around £4,800
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The graphics on the Fifty One are inspiring for various reasons
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London-based Talbot Frameworks had this mixed-material number on show
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This Talbot was made for a customer with Dwarfism
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Talbot's rear seatstays share a lot in common with Rob English's, a man whom Talbot's Matt McDonough sights as one of his favourite builders
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Legend had its first ever disc road bike on display, and it was great
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Crisp finishing on the Legend seat stays
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Spanish builder Paulus Quiros makes frames in Swansea, and bloomin' lovely they are too
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Possibly the only Rotor Uno groupset in existence on this Paulus Quiros
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Demon Frameworks had a ridiculously nice track frame in display
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Gusset goodness
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New builder Karussell had this fine steed on display
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With this neatly thought out brake mount on custom steel fork
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Donard are another brand building bespoke carbon in Ireland
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For all the bling in the world, this early Dura-Ace rear derailleur still tickles the fancy
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Chris King (left) made an appearence
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Reynolds' 3D printed parts, before and after polishing