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Jon Woodroof
5 min readOct 9, 2023
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Hello!

The Bespoked Handmade Bikeshow kicks off this Friday in Dresden! Iโ€™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. Iโ€™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?!

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: 50
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: 9
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK: 9
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: 7
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic: 6
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland: 4
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 4
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium: 3
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark: 2
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Colombia: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญSwitzerland: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine: 1
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ 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 โ€” 2PM : Bespoked 2023 Press opening
  • 2PM โ€” 6PM : Bespoked Public opening

Saturday 14 October

  • 08.00 โ€” Sour Bikes Sweeeeet 40K Gravel Ride
  • 10.00 โ€” Show open
  • 11.00โ€“11.45 -TALK โ€” Taking Care with Alex Claus of Portus Cycles DE
  • 12.00โ€“12.30 โ€” FILM โ€” Freak Bikes by Swamp Films ENG with DE subtitles
  • 12.45โ€“13.30 โ€” TALK โ€” Freak Bikes with Drust, Nonstop Schwitzen and Swamp Films ENG/DE
  • 13.45โ€“14.15 โ€” FILM โ€” โ€˜Never Lostโ€™ 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
  • 14.30โ€“15.15 โ€” TALK โ€” The Art of Ultra Sleeping with Quinda Verheul and Sebastian Breuer ENG
  • 6PM โ€” Show closes
  • 6PM โ€” Late โ€” After party at Club Kwang Lee, Gรถrlitzer Str. 35, 01099

Sunday 15 October

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

More details about this 12th edition of Europeโ€™s largest annual exhibition of custom bikes at Bespoked.cc and in the Twotone newsroom in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง and in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช, ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท.

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

Jon

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Hereโ€™s to being stoked for Bespoked this week!

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