We wrap up the show – but not our coverage – with builds from Meerglas Frameworks, True Love Cycles, Gregario Cycling, Cicli Bonanno, Milli Cycles, Curve Cycling, and Cyber Cycles.
Josh Weinberg
Picking up where the first installment left off, this gallery features another selection of bikes and builders from Bespoked Dresden. So grab your morning coffee or evening spritz and enjoy a unique blend straight from Dresden International Airport.
Bespoked Dresden 2025 bike show gallery, part one
Featuring builds from Avalanche Cycles, Fern-Fahrraeder, Gramm Tourpacking, Hilite Bikes, Quokka Cycles, and Scarab Cycles
Meerglas Frameworks
Meerglas is the term for sea glass that’s been shaped and modified after years of contact with sand and rocks. This is the approach framebuilder Tomas Becker takes to bike fabrication. He crafts frames and components from scratch, often incorporating lugs he makes himself, to achieve modern geometries and varied shapes that are not available through the confines of vintage lugs.
Becker had multiple touring bikes on display this year, the most recent of which is called the “Gravelour.” Rather than a fully custom build, as Meerglas typically offers, this is a semi-stock option featuring a host of elements the builder is known for. Typically, smaller frame sizes will be built around 26″ wheels, medium with 27.5″ wheels, and the large end of the spectrum (61 cm and above) will have 700c wheels. Each size will clear 48 mm tires with fenders, and up to 55 mm tires without.
The lugged silver-brazed frame has classic design elements, like a 1″ headtube and headset and rim brake mounting posts, with only a low-trail fork available. It’s made from a medley of tubing that includes Columbus Zona (main triangle and fork blades), Reynolds seatstays and steerer, and Kaisei X Rene Herse bottom bracket shell and chainstays.
Other add-on options to the €3,900 base price (including frame, fork, paint, and Honjo fenders) include Rinko-related options for easy travel disassembly, a SON SL hub and sliding ground connection; plus a pump peg, framebag mounts, lowrider rack mounts, and René Herse Nivex derailleur/front shifter. The bags shown here are from Gilles Berthoud, except for the Gramm Tourpacking top tube bag, made to match.
Becker also had a very unique two-wheeled creation on hand, which I couldn’t help documenting. The brazed recumbent bike was something he “couldn’t stop thinking about, and had to build before moving on to other projects.”
Utilizing the open source plans available from Flevobike Fanclub, the build places the rider between two large wheels, with center steering. The riding style differs from traditional upright bikes and typical recumbents, where weight transfer (core and legs) dictates lateral movement rather than steering inputs.
Not wanting to spend much money out of pocket on the build, Becker mainly used parts lying around his workshop. The fiberglass seat was sourced from eBay, however. The suspension lockout lever is from an old East German moorbike, and the chainring is custom-made by Rovar Cycles.
He noted that this project alone took over 200 hours of work to complete, a process that spanned the three weeks leading up to Bespoked.
Cyber Cycles
Gerolf Meyer, host of the German cycling podcast Antritt, had his recently built touring rig on display. Designed by Cyber Cycles, a Jena, Germany-based frame and component brand, the bike is called “Split Works” because it utilizes frame and hydraulic brake line couplers, in addition to dynamo coaxial connectors, to separate in half for travel.
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