BikeRadar Builds
BikeRadar Builds is our occasional look at the team’s personal bikes, including custom rigs, commuters, dream builds, component testbeds and more.
This is our chance to geek out about the bikes we’re riding day-to-day, and explore the thinking (or lack of it!) behind our equipment choices.
BikeRadar Builds | Oscar’s Niner RLT 9 RDO is a go-fast but versatile gravel racer
America meets Italy in this one-off custom build
BikeRadar Builds | Why I built my gravel bike like a road race bike
Simon's Kinesis GX Race is classically styled and doesn't follow the rules
BikeRadar Builds | Why Jack Luke commissioned a custom all-road bike with cantilever brakes in 2024
Your questions about Jack's first custom road bike answered
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BikeRadar Builds | Tom’s Transition Spur is an eclectic, enduro-worrying build
Tom explains why he loves his downcountry bike and what he has planned for it
BikeRadar Builds | Pete Sampson's 7.7kg 1x all-road Giant TCR Advanced Pro
A custom go-fast gravel bike for light off-road adventuring
BikeRadar Builds | Why Will mulleted all three of his mountain bikes
Not one, not two but three mullet bikes for MBUK video presenter Will Soffe
BikeRadar Builds | Oscar’s Pinarello Gan K proves endurance bikes don’t have to be slow
A dream custom build
BikeRadar Builds | Oscar’s Specialized Allez DSW SL road bike
An old-school frame designed for use all-year round
BikeRadar Builds | Alex's custom-specced Marin Alpine Trail E2 ebike
This custom-specced and modified ebike meets all of Alex's must-have requirements
BikeRadar Builds | Jack's fabulously flexible 1994 Lee Cooper 653 neo-retro road bike
We take a close look at Jack's latest – and typically unconventional – custom build
BikeRadar Builds | Alex's Marin Alpine Trail custom test bike
This ever-evolving test bed is guaranteed a hard life
BikeRadar Builds | Simon's Planet X Exocet 2 time trial bike
The heaviest… and fastest bike Simon owns
BikeRadar Builds | Simon’s 2009 Giant TCR Advanced SL
How does an eleven-year-old road bike stack up against today’s bikes?
BikeRadar Builds | Jack's refurbished touring tandem, Cecil
Jack talks us through his recently refurbished, cruise-friendly, upright, Instagram-compatible trundle bus
BikeRadar Builds | George's Mason Bokeh gravel bike
UK-designed, Italian-made frame with Shimano GRX Di2
BikeRadar Builds | Matthew’s Genesis Croix de Fer 853
Matthew’s Shimano GRX testbed is all steel all the time
BikeRadar Builds | Tom's Santa Cruz Chameleon mullet singlespeed
Tom's do-it-all hardtail has been pared down to just the essentials