stray cycles
                                             

 a new kind of bike for the old kind of adventures

WELCOME TO STRAY CYCLES

What makes Stray different?

Stray Cycles was founded to buck the trends of a market flooded with bikes that are hyper-specialized, mass-produced and designed to be thrown away and replaced in a few years when something wears-out, breaks or when the "next great thing" comes along.  

Our bikes are hand-built in Europe using classic and clean styling, designed to be as simple, durable, repairable, elegant and socially- and environmentally-sustainable as possible.

We work with small businesses and use locally-sourced materials and components wherever possible to reduce shipping and lead-time.   We select partners who share our values and pay fair prices and wages to those who contribute their craft, skills and passion to our bikes.    


The joy of self-powered adventure

The bicycle is a perfect tool to enjoy the freedom of human powered exploration; moving through landscapes and cultures; immersed in the diversity of sounds, smells, weather and people encountered along the way.

Slowing-down, knowing that the faster and easier path is not always better, and that by just keeping those pedals turning, you can get to wonderful new places.   Choosing to take the road less travelled, just because it's there.

The destination is wherever you are.  

Our bikes are built for adventures off the beaten path (and back again!) with an emphasis on all-day comfort and playful but balanced handling.

Functional beauty

With an obsessive attention to detail informed by countless hours and thousands of kilometres pedalling, pushing and carrying, our bikes have an intentional and timeless design.   Balanced and effortless to ride, loaded or unloaded. NOT overbuilt.  Bikes with soul.


...while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we think our bikes will look best with a splatter of mud and having accumulated the scars of an adventurous  and storied life...

 

 

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