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Gallery: Reynolds tubing handmade bikes

By Sam Dansie

published 19 November 2013

Handbuilt bikes using UK's greatest tubing

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(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Matt Bowns at 18Bikes incorporated a gearbox into this Reynolds 853 mountain bike(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

This is the bike of Robert Wade, a framebuilder at Swallow Bikes(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

The detailing is exquisite(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

This Shand cyclocross bike is made of 853 tubing(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

The wrap-over seatstays are a Rourke signature(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Jason Rourke built this bike for his famous framebuilding father and shop owner, Brian Rourke(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Paulus Quiros are famed for their work in Reynolds 953 tubing(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

The checquered pattern etched on the frame immediately recalls the iconic team Peugeot jersey of the 60s(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

The Libertine cross bike, rendered in Reynolds 853(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

The fillet brazing's been left nude for all to see(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Tom Donhou built this bike for a photgrapher(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Finishing on the Donhou is stunning(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Demon Frameworks's expert fillet brazing is polished up for all to see(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

Gray estimates this Holdsworth harks back to the 1950s(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

This virtuoso piece by Ted James required hard-to-work 953 tubes to be curved before being heat treated(Image credit: Phil Taylor)

This article first appeared on Bikeradar.

UK tubing manufacturer Reynolds announced last week they would launch a brand new stainless steel general purpose tubeset in the new year.

We thought the arrival of Reynolds 921 was as good a reason as any to pull a gallery together of some beautiful British handmade bikes all rendered in Reynolds' famed tubes. Phil Taylor, a frame builder by trade, but arguably better known as the organiser of the Bespoked handmade bike show, picked some of his personal favourites and gives us a critique of their artistic and engineering merit.

"I like Reynolds tubing because the bikes I had as a kid growing up all had Reynolds," Taylor told BikeRadar. Now I get to make bikes using the same tubing and, as a British frame builder, I like to use UK products where possible."

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Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine Ride for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling as a staff writer in November 2010.

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