bikes of the bunch

Bikes of the Bunch - Ciocc Supremo

This week on Bikes of the Bunch we’d like to showcase one of the more unique carbon fiber machines I’ve seen the pack - the Ciocc Supremo.

Bikes of the Bunch: BT Road Bike

Bike Technologies Australia (commonly known as BT) is one of the biggest names in track bikes. The company has a history of building frames with a distinctive curved top tube that extends through the seatstays and in the mid-2000s the company made a brief foray into the road bike market. The result was the BT […]

Bikes of the Bunch: Speedvagen Road Machine

After months in front of a screen poring over beautiful examples from The Vanilla Workshop, it was a chance encounter in the flesh that proved to be the tipping point from fantasy to reality. Introducing Andy Rogers’ svelte Speedvagen Road Machine.

Bikes of the Bunch: Crumpton Corsa

Bikes of the Bunch is as much about the stories behind the bikes we feature, as it is about the bikes themselves. And with Alfred Basa’s Crumpton Corsa there’s a great story to go along with the bright green frame. Enjoy.

Bikes of the Bunch: Look 695

In this instalment of Bikes of the Bunch, CyclingTips regular contributor Veeral Patel shoots and shares the story of his mate’s Look 695.

Bikes of the Bunch - The Baumpton

I can’t remember the last time I technically “owned” a bike that I’ve chosen myself. That’s not to say I haven’t ridden some beautiful bikes in my day and I’ve always been thankful to sponsors, but I’ve always looked forward to the process to custom building a bike. So being able to direct the design […]

Bikes of the bunch: Alby’s Passoni

In this edition of Bikes of the Bunch we feature a bike that doesn’t sacrifice function over style. You might think of Passoni as being a bike that’s too precious to ride, but let me assure you, this one will be given a flogging.

Bikes of the Bunch: Cipollini Bond

Since 2010 Mario Cipollini has been working to develop a range of high performance road bikes under his name. The bikes are loud and audacious, a lot like Cipo, and this was no more apparent than in last year’s launch of the Cipollini Bond.

Bikes of the Bunch: Parlee Z5i

You mightn’t see too many Parlee bikes out on the road but the frames you do see are always aesthetically pleasing. We were recently invited to photograph a beautiful new Parlee Z5i belonging to a fellow Melbournian who travelled with us to the Spring Classics last year.

Bikes of the Bunch: Colnago Mapei Master X-Light

Team Mapei was one of the most dominant classics squads of the 1990s, featuring the likes of Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli and Andrea Tafi. The team won Paris-Roubaix five times and in the lead-up to the 2013 edition of the race, Melbourne-based Mapei superfan, Jeff Provan, invited us to photograph his Colnago Mapei Master X-Light.