Condor Bivio

I couldn’t have tested two more different breeds of bikes this issue. If the Spoon Vars is an Arabian thoroughbred, the Condor Bivio is a Hackney – a horse best known for carriage pulling and long-distance hacking. Like the Hackney, the Bivio is designed to go most places, to go all day and to happily deal with being laden.

To achieve this, the bike has mounts aplenty. I should imagine the only thing you can’t bolt to the Bivio is another Bivio, albeit the most up-to-date frameset now has a third set of bottle bosses on the top tube, Condor having listened to customer feedback here. And while that might sound, or ‘contract builder’. That allows Condor to make such running changes to design as adding bottle bosses, but it also speaks to the sensibilities of this bike – it’s the closest off-the-peg ride you’ll get to being custom.