ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Nº275 Stoked for Bespoked! 🔧 ⚙️

Hello!

The Bespoked Handmade Bikeshow kicks off this Friday in Dresden! I'll be traveling to the show with my friends Hahn of Rossman Cycles & Rob of Quirk Cycles. Bespoked has been an annual tradition for me since 2016. I'm genuinely stoked!

Bregan of CRANK! Communications and I have been working behind the scenes to help promote this edition of the show & will continue to do so for all those unable to go. Expect daily highlight reels on the Bespoked insta about the 102 exhibitors attending from no less than 17 countries! How cool is that?!

🇩🇪 Germany: 50
🇫🇷 France: 9
🇬🇧 UK: 9
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 7
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: 6
🇵🇱 Poland: 4
🇮🇹 Italy: 4
🇧🇪 Belgium: 3

🇩🇰 Denmark: 2
🇨🇴 Colombia: 1
🇱🇹 Lithuania: 1
🇵🇹 Portugal: 1
🇺🇸 USA: 1
🇨🇭Switzerland: 1
🇪🇸 Spain: 1
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 1
🇹🇼 Taiwan: 1

Here is the schedule:

(including Weds & Thursday Factory tours that you can register for here)

Wednesday 11 October

Bike24
BEAST Components
Velocium

Thursday 12 October

Tex-Lock
Dlouhy Cycles
Diamant Bicycle Works
Cotesa // Ponomarets Bike

Friday 13 October

10AM – 2PM : Bespoked 2023 Press opening
2PM – 6PM : Bespoked Public opening

Saturday 14 October

08.00 – Sour Bikes Sweeeeet 40K Gravel Ride
10.00 – Show open
11.00 – 11.45 -TALK – Taking Care with Alex Claus of Portus Cycles DE
12.00 – 12.30 – FILM – Freak Bikes by Swamp Films ENG with DE subtitles
12.45 – 13.30 – TALK – Freak Bikes with Drust, Nonstop Schwitzen and Swamp Films ENG/DE
13.45 – 14.15 – FILM – ‘Never Lost’ by Kilian Reil supported by Schwalbe. The film includes cyclists Quinda Verheul, Joergen Trepp, Leanne Bentley, and Kilian Reil. ENG Q&A between the filmmaker and interviewer Niels Flemm
14.30 – 15.15 – TALK – The Art of Ultra Sleeping with Quinda Verheul and Sebastian Breuer ENG
6PM – Show closes
6PM – Late – After party at Club Kwang Lee, Görlitzer Str. 35, 01099

Sunday 15 October

08.00 – Sour Bikes Sweeeeet 40K Gravel Ride
10.00 – Show open
11.00 – 11.30 – FILM – DDR Frame Builders by Petor Georgallou supported by The Radavist and Diamant DE with ENG Sub
11.45 – 12.45 – TALK – Freaky Track Bikes of the DDR, a discussion with Gunnar Fehlau and Bennet of Ballern Cycle Works DE
13.00 – 13.45 – Max Riese on The Nature on Ultra Distance Racing and the Hellenic Mountain Race DE
4PM – Show Closes

More details about this 12th edition of Europe’s largest annual exhibition of custom bikes at Bespoked.cc and in the Twotone newsroom in 🇬🇧 and in 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇫🇷.

as always, thank you so much for reading & sharing this newsletter!

Jon

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