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Use our search engine below to find the cycle or cycle accessory you've always dreamed about.

Product Spotlight

Octos

Octos
"I've been riding an Octos for a year now - I take it to festivals, civic events, corporate groups, schools and weddings. The Octos is a mobile party - every time I take it out I feel I am giving and receiving joy. All sorts of people climb on board, but the reaction is always the same: they are ama

Encycleopedia 2003 Video CD (view clip)

In addition to the exciting editorial pieces and photographs of the world's most unusual bicycles and bicycle products, we are also adding another dimension to Encycleopedia - literally.

For the first time, Encycleopedia will have a Video CD sold along with the book. Three dimensions for the price of two!

The CD soundtrack will feature music by the renowned recording artist Martin Stephenson (website - artist info). Order yours today!

Encycleopedia Online Product Reviews

Welcome to Encycleopedia.com's bike reviews. It's been quite a while since we published the last edition of Encycleopedia, the magazine. In the meantime we thought we'd moonlight as product testers.

The reviews published here will not necessarily be published in the forthcoming magazine - though some may be. These reviews are intended for our website only.

So let's get started. The first product to get The Treatment is the Café, a medium wheelbase (or compact long-wheelbase for you old-schoolers) recumbent bike, manufactured by Bacchetta out of St. Petersburgh, Florida, USA.

The Café by Bacchetta Bikes »

Encycleopedia VIII

Encycleopedia VIII

Now in its thirteenth year, Encycleopedia continues to celebrate specialist and interesting products from around the world, and bike culture in general, bringing them together in an attractive, colourful, coffee-table book style of presentation. Although way behind the original schedule the next edition, Encycleopedia VIII, is in the final stages of production, and we will post the new release date as soon as this is announced.

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Encycleopedia Ltd. has made a reasonable effort to ensure that all products featured in Encycleopedia are of high quality, from respectable sources, and are accurately described. Not every product has been tested extensively. It is the responsibility of the purchaser of a product to ensure that the product is safe and appropriate for the purpose intended. We cannot accept responsibility for the consequences of transactions between readers and producers and/or distributors of the products described in Encycleopedia. Encycleopedia Ltd. has made every effort to ensure that the shops listed in Encycleopedia are reputable, efficient and sympathetic to the aims of Encycleopedia. However, we cannot bear responsibility for the actions of shops, nor the consequences of transactions between readers and shops.

Please note that any published price information is merely a guide towards the likely cost of the product in the country of origin. The same product could cost half as much again in another country. For-up-to date pricing information, we recommend always checking directly with the manufacturers or their agents. Many of the product features on this website were first published in an edition of Encycleopedia which is now relatively out of date and it is extremely unlikely that specific details remain accurate. We continue to list these products purely as an archive reference, and we have therefore attempted to delete all references to their prices and contact details. We suggest you use your internet search engine should you wish to pursue more information about them.