Temple Cycles ⚠️ With reservations

British steel bike brand founded in 2013 in Bristol. Reynolds frames, classic club bike design. Road, urban and gravel bikes.

Bristol, 2014. Matt, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Bristol, spends his weekends restoring vintage bikes from the 60s-80s, salvaged from Somerset. He falls in love with their elegant lines and the reliability of steel. One day, he tells himself he can do better than restoring – designing the perfect bike from scratch, combining vintage aesthetics with modern materials and technologies.

After an intensive design and prototyping phase, Temple launched its first two models in early 2015 – the Classic and the Step Through Lightweight, still in the catalog today. To make himself known, Matt traveled the country with pop-up shops, meeting hundreds of enthusiasts and taking dozens of orders before returning to assemble them in his Somerset workshop.

By the end of 2015, a larger space was needed. The workshop moved to Bristol, on the city's edge where the countryside begins. Each bike is hand-assembled there by a team of "master bike builders". The frames use Reynolds tubes from Birmingham – a historic British tubing manufacturer. Steel offers comfort, durability, and repairability that aluminum and carbon do not. Temple added the Adventure range for gravel and touring. Rouleur qualifies their bikes as "modern classic". Two shops (Bristol, London), international sales. Regarding enthusiasts: "my first time owning a steel bike and I can't recommend it enough." Frames manufactured in Taiwan, assembly in Bristol.