Specifications: Frame and Fork: Allied Alfa Disc with clearance for 700C x 30mm tires Finish: Harlequin Magenta to Gold paint Front Derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 Rear Derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2…
Mariposa Feature: Road + Bicycle with Campagnolo Record Mechanical
A custom classic road+ bicycle with Campagnolo Record 12 speed mechanical and Velo Orange Grand Cru brakes with clearance for up to 700C x 35mm tires. Specifications: Frameset: Built with…
Mariposa Feature: Road+ Bicycle with Campagnolo Chorus
A Road + bike built with lightweight Kaisei tubing, a custom steel fork, clearance for 700C x 35mm tires without fenders or 700C x 28mm tires with fenders, rim brakes…
Mariposa Feature: Road Disc Bicycle with SRAM Red AXS
This road disc bicycle was built with Kaisei tubing, fillet brazed. The carbon disc fork and the frame have clearance for 700c x 32 tires. It was built with a…
Allied Bicycles Canada
We are pleased to announce that in addition to building custom Mariposa steel bicycles, we are now the exclusive Canadian distributors of Allied Cycleworks carbon bicycles. Our focus remains on steel custom bicycles and,…
Mariposa Feature: Road Bicycle With Pantographed Campagnolo Athena Components
A road bicycle built with Columbus tubing, long point lugs, a Columbus Minimal carbon fork and Campagnolo Athena pantographed components. Specifications: Frame: Columbus tubing with long point lugs. Fork:…
Vintage Bicycle Feature: 1973 Eisentraut Road Bicycle. Oakland, USA.
Built for British cycling journalist and randonneur, Jock Wadley. Albert Eisentraut acquired an appreciation of hand built bicycles at the elbow of legendary Paramount maker Oscar Wastyn in Chicago, and…
Building Bicycles
By Michael Barry for Soigneur Photography by Ian Patterson The rising sun breaks through the trees, as we thrash across the open fields. Beneath us, our bikes absorb the undulations…
Vintage Bicycle Feature: 1982 Mariposa Child’s Road Bicycle
By Michael Barry A good steel frame can be used repeatedly, for decades. It can be ridden, crashed, fixed and adapted. In the shop, old bikes come in constantly that…
Creemore Springs Turas Mor 2019
By Dede Barry Photography by Jody Wilson Rain, dirt, mud, gravel, sun, quiet country roads, spring flowers, good food and camaraderie will make for a good bike ride with memorable…
Mariposa Feature: All-Road Mechanical with Centre-Pull Brakes
Mike Barry Sr and Michael Jr. spent countless hours talking about bikes, what worked well and what didn’t. Riding in the city streets which are spotted with potholes and often…
Vintage Bicycle Feature: c1988 Kirk Precision Magnesium Bicycle
Frank Kirk thought up this remarkable bike while working as a designer at the Ford plant in Dagenham, England. The frame is made of cast magnesium, and was a dramatically different approach to frame…