‘I don’t do it for money,’ says Darren Ryden. ‘It’s hard to make a profit building bikes the way I do it. Most frame-builders will have a common template and then they’ll tweak the geometry for the customer. I like to do everything a little bit custom, a little bit different, and that doesn’t scale well. For me it’s a passion project.’
For the past five years Ryden has created bespoke bikes from his home in Berkshire. An IT professional by day, he spends his spare time taking on one-off projects for
