Airdrop Bikes Blog

Since we launched the new Edit v3 we've had a lot of good questions coming through email and social media. With frames arriving any day, we thought we should take a stab at providing some good answers.

This Saturday sees Dual racing return to the streets of Sheffield with a field of invited European talent going head-to-head against Sheffield locals and our own previous winner, Brett Penfold. We'll be there with bikes on show including the new Edit v3.

Remember when purple anodising everything was cool? That was 2019. We take a look at Neil's custom Bitmap with trick parts from Hope and Burgtec.

Matt's a local rider and his mate has got a nice Airdrop Edit already. But Matt figured he could go one better so we built him a very nice bike with a full Hope Technology build kit.

Dan's custom built Edit v2 puts a subtle but distinctive twist on the standard Edit Pro bike. It's stealthy and well thought-out. Good work Dan.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they take their tea. The same goes for a bike brand, especially when it's only two people.

A little while back we built a custom Edit v2 for local rider Tom. It went up on Vital MTB and made Bike Of The Day but we never put it on the blog, so here's Tom's bike - with a particularly well thought-out Hopetech colour scheme.

Back in May when the Bitmaps first arrived, we built up a Works bike and sent it to the guys at MBUK for a review. The results are in and you can read the whole thing in issue 361...

Brett came to us with an idea for a custom built Bitmap hardtail a few weeks back. First time out he won a Northern Downhill Series race on it, so we thought we'd take a look at this unusual but clearly very fast bike.

Richard's a Sheffield local and we see him out riding in the woods every now and then. He was stoked on the local brand thing and wanted to stick with British brands for his build, so we called in Hope and Burgtec to finish the job. The results are tidy...

Burgtec is the definition of a British rider owned brand, making some of the best components out there. When the opportunity came up to spec Burgtec components on our bikes, we weren't going to let that pass. We're now offering Burgtec bars, stem, grips & saddle as standard on our top-end bikes.

There's been a lot of buzz around the new Bitmap hardtail, which we designed to be as fast and fun as possible. With that in mind, we built it around the latest wide rims and tyres. But loads of people are asking if you can run a 'plus' tyre so we gave it a go.