My Favourite Company
by Iain on April 25, 2007
Specialbike is a company in Brighton that takes old bikes and turns them into new bikes. Kind of like ‘Pimp My Cycle’ (the bike above used to be a knackered old Peugeot racer).
You can tell them exactly what you want your dream bike to be like and give them a budget. Then you can pick the colour and type of finish as well as specifiy individual bits and bobs.
It’s just a really nice idea. You bring life back to an old bike as well as getting something completely and utterly unique. Their site also expresses a really nice tone of voice.
I’m going to go and see them on Saturday. I’m dead excited. I’l let you know how I get on.
5 comments
Very, very cool. Such a good idea…
by Andrew Knott on 25/04/2007 at 8:53 pm. #
[...] SpecialBike. What a great idea. I’m sure there’s something like this in every major city, but SpecialBike seems fairly polished. Via Iain Tait. [...]
by Ross Dougall - Special bikes at makin bacon › design, advertising, etc. on 25/04/2007 at 11:48 pm. #
I wish I was in England for this too. I need a bike here in sunny Germany!
I also just wrote to them (they had a typo on a page) and got an almost instant and nice reply. That’s always good to see too. I hope they do well; companies with their hearts in the right place like this deserve to (unlike Virgin Media).
by Andy Polaine on 26/04/2007 at 9:31 am. #
I checked out these guys as that’s pretty much what I’d like to do for a living in an ideal world! (only the bikes would have tougher names and neat/cute artwork, and gimmicks like flower vases on the handlebars).
I did 3 for friends over last summer and I remember thinking their prices were high (read extortionate), but then, I realised that if you want something 1-off made, that’s just how much it costs if you’re trying to run it as a business. good luck!
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by anthony on 26/04/2007 at 10:16 am. #
A little on the pricy side.
by James Greenfield on 26/04/2007 at 5:38 pm. #