May Coverage
Some of our amazing PR coverage so far this month.
Latest Review
Mango £269 / US$432 Frame High tensile steel / Fork High tensile steel / Wheels41mm alloy rims, 32h high flange hubs, flip flop rear / Transmission Forged 6061 aluminium, 44x16T / BrakesCStar dual pivot calipers Perhaps the most important aspect of bike testing is calibrating your expectations. And expectations are, of course, different to preconceptions which should always be banished. These two challenges [...]
CYCLING IN THE CITY – THE UNWRITTEN RULES
1. Ride the ultimate City Bike, ride a Single Speed Mango Every city is filled with what we refer to as ‘Granny Bikes’. Dull, heavy and clunky contraptions. Mango Bikes have been designed and built with the city in mind. Ride a Mango and you’ll soon see that there is no need for any gears when travelling around [...]
Looking forward
The weather hasn’t exactly been perfect for Mango owners. Whilst picturesque, these aren’t exactly bike riding conditions (we don’t endorse putting your safety on the line, but hats off to anyone who’s braved the snow on two wheels!). Frozen locks, numb hands and iced-up roads don’t exactly make for fun cruising, even if your custom [...]
Spin to win
So, at the back end of the Summer a messaged popped up from an old friend, Aaron Rolph . He came to me personally asking if I had a road bike he could borrow for some crazy adventure. I didn’t. What we had was better. Aaron and his mate, Cesca Dessain, pedalled from London to [...]
2012 – what a year!
2012 has been a crazy year for MB. It’s amazing when you look back and realise how quickly the brand has grown in just 6 months. Winning the Urban Cyclist review when put up against brands that have been around for years and years has to be one of the main highlights. Thanks for all of [...]
Not Long Until the Next Shipment Arrives
So it’s a few weeks before the second shipment of Mango Bikes arrives. We’re currently gearing up for the mammoth build of pre-orders and putting the plans in place so it’s not quite as mad as our first build. The new bikes have a few small changes, such as bottle cage mounts and some minor tweaks in [...]
MB on TV
Just a quick one before we get back to building some bikes for you lot… Tonight is the first in a new series on BBC 3, fronted by Richard Reed (one of the co-founders of Innocent Drinks) called Be Your Own Boss and as the title suggests, we’re going to feature. It will be well [...]
Go go go at MB HQ
It’s a week away until the first batch of Mangos arrive in the UK. As of then we’ll be operating on a 3 day turnaorund time. We’ve now moved into the official MB HQ – see the photos of Ben and the family putting in some new shelving with the tunes blaring. We’ve teamed up [...]
WOMAD Fest (and did someone say “gears”?)
This weekend just gone we hit up WOMAD festival. The plan (we didn’t have much of one – we found out a space had opened up for us just a week beforehand) was to let people meet us first hand, have a look at the bikes, take them for a spin and maybe deisgn their [...]