Bikes – Skeppshult – Natur Liberty close-up, originally uploaded by velorution. Skeppshult has produced a Special Edition bicycle for Liberty which is now displayed in the Prints Charming exhibition. A wonderful bike both to admire and to ride (£950). Skeppshult bicycles have been hand-crafted in Sweden for almost 100 years and are renowned for their superior design, quality and technology. Created exclusively for Prints Charming, the Natur bicycle has been meticulously hand built and finished with the eye-catching Liberty Caesar print. Peacock feathers adorn the [...]

The venerable English saddle maker with Italian marketing blood wants to look and feel young. It has decided to associate itself with the fixie tribe and is sponsoring world-wide bike polo tournaments. It has issued special edition Swifts and TeamPros, in different colours, each one associated with one of the towns hosting the events. This week-end is the turn of the blue Swift, i.e. the European Hardcourt Bicycle Polo Championship here in London. Now, we missed our midlife crisis, and bicycle polo seems to us [...]

Colours From 1st January 2009, all Brompton bikes will be painted in a matt finish. The switchover from a gloss finish will offer higher consistency in terms of quality, reduce the number of rejected frame parts, eventually remove the need to undercoat the frames and lend the bikes what we feel is a more modern look. Tempest Blue, Kew Green and Ivory will be discontinued, as their similarity to other colours makes them superfluous; Silver will also be discontinued as it only works as a [...]