On the east side of Berlin, in an old factory building there is a space lovingly called ‘WERKSTATT’ with three amazing companies doing interesting things on the German cycling scene. We went to meet Fern, Gramm and Meerglass and find out more. For the past few years Podia has been…

Most bicycle lovers will recognise the iconic three-digit logos that differentiate the products of Reynolds Technology, but how many will know what they really mean? We went along to meet the fine folk at one of the oldest companies in the cycling business.

WR Compositi produce lightweight carbon components for road and mountain bikes. Handmade from the highest spec carbon in their workshop in Bergamo, Italy. We went along to discover more about what makes them so special.

In the last couple of years Stelbel have been at the forefront of some of the best looking custom steel bicycles around. They seemed to come out of nowhere, but meeting them at their HQ near Bergamo, Italy; we found out there is a rich history of framebuilding behind them.

Piotr Lisiecki was brought up in a house where metalworking was part of everyday life. Add to this the fact that he studied art and has an un-relenting passion for cycling and you get one incredibly interesting frame maker.

To coincide with the launch of the new Podia website, we wanted something special for the first blog article. What could be more special than a small company from the UK who make extraordinary steel frames.

In the past few years the rejuvenation of custom frame makers has been notable by the amount of new talent coming to the profession, especially in the UK and the US, but what about Poland?

Podia recently met with Momentum Workshop to talk about their work and we soon realised they share a passion for visiting the makers of great hand built bicycles. Last summer they went to Northern Italy and visited Giovanni Pelizzoli, a frame maker we have been trying to meet for a while. Below…

At Podia we try to feature some of the best, well-known frame builders that we can find. But when we heard about Michał Krzyżanowski of Momentum Workshop something felt very new and interesting.

At first glance Crema Cycles looks like a very well designed high-end bike shop. The type of shop that you would expect to find in a big city, not in a small village located in the Bavarian mountains. But Crema isn’t just a high-end bike shop, far from it.