Tom Weijand

London

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Articles

Going custom: the story of my one-of-a-kind custom bike build, from start to finish

6 days ago | road.cc | Tom Weijand

feature When OPEN announced a run of 250 U.P.PER. CONCEP.T. framesets, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to craft my dream machine. Here's the story of how it was made, from taking measurements to the full custom paint job I loved the original OPEN U.P. bike. It effectively birthed and stabilised the gravel bike sector. So, when OPEN announced a whole new range of bikes, starting with a lightweight concept version, (the U.P.PER.
Going custom: the story of my one-of-a-kind custom bike build, from start to finish

1 week ago | road.cc | Tom Weijand

feature When OPEN announced a run of 250 U.P.PER. CONCEP.T. framesets, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to craft my dream machine. Here's the story of how it was made, from taking measurements to the full custom paint job I loved the original OPEN U.P. bike. It effectively birthed and stabilised the gravel bike sector. So, when OPEN announced a whole new range of bikes, starting with a lightweight concept version, (the U.P.PER.
5 Luxury Home Accessories We Can't Live Without

2 weeks ago | robbreportmonaco.com | Tom Weijand

This may well be the most extraordinary technological and engineering amalgam ever aimed at vinyl. It’s arrestingly huge, a size that’s hard to capture in photos, but be aware that is a full-sized vinyl platter that appears dwarf-like in the centre of the unit. It’s an astonishing 350 kg, not including the three separate power supplies and pumps.
Squire Stronghold D16 Max

3 weeks ago | road.cc | Tom Weijand

VERDICT: 10 Absolute anchor, in terms of security and weight – buy if you need the longest shackle and the highest tier of security Almost top-tier angle grinder resistance Huge – will contain the biggest bike tubes Hardwearing rubber coating So big. So heavy. The trade-off for this level of security Poor lock weather cover that slides openIt's nearly 300 quid At road.cc every product is thoroughly tested for as long as it takes to get a proper insight into how well it works.
Interview: OPEN’s Gerard Vroomen & Andy Kessler on the EU-Made U.P.PER. CONCE.PT. and the Future of Gravel Bike Design

1 month ago | bikerumor.com | Tom Weijand

OPEN Cycles is an interesting company. Founded in 2012 by two heavyweights in the cycling industry, Gerard Vroomen and Andy Kessler, it feels like a passion project that they both take very seriously. Gerard co-founded Cervelo with Phil White in 1995, and if you’ve heard of a bike company called BMC, that’s because Andy transformed it during his tenure as CEO, expanding its racing presence to turn them into a prestigious household name in cycling.
Prestacycle Prestaflator Go

1 month ago | road.cc | Tom Weijand

VERDICT: 10 Almost flawless electric mini-pump, small enough and with enough oompf and capacity to convert the sceptics – I was one Goldilocks sized – not too big, not too small Great battery capacity Well made (for the most part) Fast, reliable & easy to use Slightly plasticky buttons Battery gauge not terribly accurate At road.cc every product is thoroughly tested for as long as it takes to get a proper insight into how well it works.
6 Ultimate Pieces of Travel Tech for your Next Trip

2 months ago | robbreportmonaco.com | Tom Weijand

Made in Maichingen, Germany, this elegant travel-safe is the very definition of an iron fist inside a velvet glove. The Guardian, with an interior completely upholstered in the finest Alcantara suede, will carry up to six watches or a jewellery roll, in stability and safety. It can be custom configured in a plethora of exquisite materials and finishes, and personalised and engraved in numerous ways.
Ripping it up in the year 2000 - the bikes I was riding 25 years ago

Jan 17, 2025 | road.cc | Steve Thomas |Rebecca Bland |George Hill |Tom Weijand

Steve takes a ride back to the dawn of the new millennium and recounts what bikes he was riding back then, looking at how his bike collection and cycling tech in general has evolved in the last quarter of a century Bleary and cheery-eyed, as the jukebox and drunken dancing is paused, I wobble and watch as the hands of the old analogue clock in the wall of the local village pub slowly but surely moved ever closer to that once-in-a-lifetime dawn of a new century and new millenium.
24 hours in Roubaix: tales from a top secret cycling launch

Jan 14, 2025 | road.cc | Rebecca Bland |George Hill |Tom Weijand |Steve Thomas

Rebecca headed to Roubaix for the Van Rysel Roubaix Team launch and was back in Yorkshire 24 hours later. Here's what went down It's a chilly Friday night in Roubaix. A hundred or so journalists, influencers and Van Rysel staff have gathered at the Roubaix La Piscine for a 'top secret' Van Rysel event. Rumours have been spreading since we disembarked the Eurostar in Lille earlier that day.
A long way to ride for a cloth badge

Jan 13, 2025 | road.cc | George Hill |Tom Weijand |Steve Thomas

400km on your own is fun until it isn't Last May I completed the Bryan Chapman Memorial 600km audax at the second time of asking, and then I had five whole months to just find a 400km ride to join to finally complete a Super Randonneur series: 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km rides in a single audax year. And then every 400km ride on the calendar clashed with something else, and then the end of the audax year was looming. So it was time to knuckle down and do it DIY style.