‘It has never been about selling millions of bikes,’ says Andy Parsons during a mid-ride coffee stop. ‘Eastwood Cycle Works started off as a vanity project, a flight of fancy. I wanted to build something out of a load of metal, something that pleases me and that I can ride and feel safe on. When I lean it up at the coffee shop, I can sit back, look at it and say, “I made that”.’
Parsons is just two years and three finished bikes into his fledgling framebuilding venture, having previously been