Fred's Single Speed & City Bikes

In October 2011, old friends Jonny & Tom sat down to a bowl of noodles in Bermondsey and decided to start a bicycle company. Visiting Uganda two months earlier, Tom had been captivated by the simple but elegant bicycles which are ubiquitous to much of rural East Africa. These models, based on a century-old British design, offer a combination of style, robustness and affordability not readily available in the UK. Something had to be done. And so began three years of designing, testing, failing, re-designing and re-testing until our the arrival of our first Fred's Bicycle. We now have an extended range of single speed and city bikes with simplistic yet functional design aimed at meeting the demands of urban riding.