The 2023 Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show is being held in Dresden, Germany. Bespoked is Europe’s largest annual exhibition for custom bikes and features artisan frame builders of all styles, with the aim of promoting the art of frame building. Anna Cipullo went along to take a look at this year’s tech that was on show, including a fully serviceable e-bike motor!
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42 Comments
I really like the ti xc hardtail whit the Ohlins fork
Great job Anna love these tech shows and a lovely presenter to boot can't beat that. Keepemcoming
I like the topics and presenter!
I cringe everytime I hear short chainstays for good climbing, in fact longer chainstays help you keep a good angle and position on climbs and will help stabilize the front.
The only thing short chainstays do is render the bike more twitchy and with your hands placed on a extended stem almost over the front axle it will only be worse.
You'll see, logic always prevail, or does it? ๐
AcTo5 I-train; answering the question,
"what do we tell the bank we're doing, now that the big defense contract got cancelled"?
IngRid; "The tech school senior project that got me hired by Shimano".
Zocelli; "what's an unemployed shredder in butthole eastern Europe supposed to do with a yard full of broken farm equipment?"
SuBa; Op. cit., see France
Amapola; "poor heat control never looked so good."
Posedla; "earnestly matching your flabby western cheeks to whatever pattern pieces we can source cheaply from China!"
Freeflow; "Chinese parts in un-identifiable casings, adapted to need".
Huhn; "Dentist money!? We laugh at 'dentist money'…."
Auguste; that painted over fork makes me want a go at the frame to look for 'Huffy' on it.
Bordure; if my Dad supported me, I'd make him a bike like that too, certainly.
Great show Anna, and Dave Hemming, that's a blast from the past, legend
Great overview of the show, I've jsut been there today.
Did the GMBN Team get any riding done around Dresden? We have some nice trails!
That Acto 5 I Train… O M G!!!
Thatโs steel Santa Cruz is sexy !!!
17:00 back in the day they were called girder forks in the classic motorcycle world.
*relived to see I'm not the only one running wacky valve caps, i have skulls.
Great show Anna ๐
It was a nice Show. Saw you there and the GCN (auf deutsch) guys. Lots of nice Bikes.
Great viewing…keep up the good work๐
Thanks for the presentation, Anna. Always pleasant to listen to.
That cnc bike is awesome ๐๐ค
Great job! We miss Doddy
loved anything that doesn't have internal cable routing haha. espesh when they only use it for 12inches, whats the point.
ยฃ390 for a saddle๐.
#askgmbntech – one for the CNC engineers – is it possible to CNC a frame 'without' all the track lines which are currently a tell-tale sign of the limitations of the CNC process?
Iโd like to see more development of the gear box. Something that is lighter than the current systems. I know cost is a factor but if it were more economically feasible a transmission composed of Ti, carbon fiber, and magnesium would definitely be lighter.
light downcountry… fml
She is hot โคโค
Are you attending Outerbike at all during your stay? Iโm coming down there later this week for the Festival and I was hoping to meet you if your still there!
Soooo boring
2:40 my 2×9 Alivio crankset made of Aluminium for 35 โฌ ( already hollowtech 2)uses the same technique, but it's forged, not cnc machined
These cheap caranksets however are quite strong, mine had several pedal strikes but it isn't bend yet.
These expensive hollow road group cranksets made by Shimano already break apart without any pedal strikes.
This show is why this industry is stuck and just doing minor changes on parts that can't change.
This video is offenve to china and chinese products.
Bougie on a Budget Haul! SAVE YOUR COIN! #kisluxbag
Cnc out of a whole block to give you that frame is incredibly wasteful.
Thank you Anna!
Champagne and 36 kilos. Someone knows how to parteeee!
euro funk
Anna's really stepped up since the Dodster has left. Nice one Anna ๐ ๐
Some awesome kit.
More videos like this please! I love the coverage of smaller artisan brands! Great video Anna! ๐
some nice rides out there. your camera shots did expose some real sloppy welds.
Great video!! Funny to see the trends. Take a shot every time the words โadditively manufacturedโ are said!!
Another wonderfully inspirational video.
Wow, stunning stuff! I love these shows. Anyone know what the bars on the Huhn at 15:03 are? Gracias.
Regardless of the class of vehicles for cyclists with one wheel, two wheels or three wheels, which use the same technical and technological system, you have no way to progress technologically. Every year, when such international fairs are held for vehicles aimed at cyclists, apart from changes in the design of bicycle frames, I do not see any other progress in inventiveness in these vehicles. When I will see a vehicle like the concept and made by me, then I can say that it is at the beginning of evolution for this type of urban transport.
The philosophy of that freeflow motor is really promising, repairability is much needed in the ebike world ๐
Very cool Iโm a Ebike builder doing a Niner 29 aluminum with a bafang HD 52 volt 160NM of torque unstoppable lol