Get Ready For The BESPOKED Handmade Bicycle Show The 28-30th Of June 2024!!

MANCHESTER, England – [28.06.24 – 30.06.24] – BESPOKED invites you to the press launch of the Manchester 2024 show. This year BESPOKED offers a number of benefits for press and media visitors including a press room in the Turkish baths with free refreshments, as well as 4 media rooms which are available by booking upon request for interviews, podcasts, photoshoots etc, to help make your job easier and more fun. Media rooms offer a quieter uncrowded space for better sound recording and space to shoot bikes free of members of the public.

The show will open early on Friday 28th June at 10.00 – 14.00 for press and industry visitors for a special press preview, with awards presented at 13.00 in the gymnasium ahead of public opening at 14.00.

It wouldn't be one of the finest weekends on two wheels without actually getting out on two wheels! Join Rapha store Manchester for a guided ride out on Saturday and Sunday mornings before the show. Choose between a chill 35k Cafe Route on Saturday and a full blown 70k Peaky Blinder out into the peaks on Sunday, as a perfect way to stretch your legs and get some energy before visiting the show.

Spaces are limited and sign up is essential, which can be done via this link.

Join us for a diverse series of talks from friends, sponsors and local cyclists we admire, with a program of talks on both Saturday and Sunday in the Angel screening room.

This year they have a dedicated room for the bar, music and food vendors featuring a selection of beers from Purity and Mash Gang, served up by the bar team from the late, great, Look Mum No Hands! They'll also have food from some of their favorite Manchester food trucks, and coffee and pastries from their friends at Rapha store Manchester.

To celebrate le grand depart magically lining up with this year’s UK edition of BESPOKED, they will be streaming live coverage throughout the weekend in the bar. Be sure to catch the coverage and highlights for the best Tour de France atmosphere this side of the channel!

After the exhibition closes at 18.00 on Friday 28th, be sure to join us at the bar for pizza, drinks and DJs to celebrate the opening night of BESPOKED as well as the show's return to the UK for the first time in two years. The afterparty is open to all press exhibitors and visitors in the venue at show closing time, but no further admission will be allowed after 19.00. 

BESPOKED is excited to announce the first BESPOKED x Condor film night on the evening of the Saturday 29th June between 18.00 – 22.00. Join us for a selection of their favourite short films hosted by Condor in the Angel screening room, with complementary Aperol spritz and popcorn. Include times, what will be happening, tickets available Wednesday 5th June.

Friday 28th June

14.00 – 18.00 Exhibition opens

18.00 – 22.00 Afterparty with pizza, drinks and DJs 🎶

Saturday 29th June

10.00 – 11.30 Rapha Manchester 35K Café Route 🚴

10.00 – 18.00 Exhibition open

11.00 – 18.00 Live Tour De France screening in Bar Pool 📺🚵

13.00 – 14.00 Talk – Bikes and Bird Hides 🗣️

14.00 – 15.00 Talk – Talk – In conversation with Archie Atkinson 🗣️

18.00 – 22.00 Film Night with Condor 🎬

Sunday 30th June

10.00 – 11.30 Rapha Manchester 70K Peaky Blinder 🚴

10.00 – 16.00 Exhibition open

11.00 – 16.00 Live Tour De France screening in Bar Pool 📺🚵

13.00 – 14.00 Talk – In conversation with Meg Barker 🗣️

14.00 – 15.00 Talk – Schwalbe on tyres made from tyres 🗣️

Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0FE , United Kingdom

Tickets are free but with limited availability, so sign up is essential via their website here
Galleries of the 2023 event atmosphere, studio photos of the bikes and BESPOKED logos can be found here. 

For more information on the event, please visit www.bespoked.cc or for press tickets and info [email protected]