You know where Raleigh bikes went wrong? They should have called the re-invented Chopper the Thunderfucker 2. That’s a bike we want to ride. And we could, if we had a spare £1,700. Fast Boy Cycles lovingly crafts bikes (such as the Thunderfucker) out of their NYC studio to order. But this is no assembly chain operation, the driving force, Ezra Caldwell, crafts no more than 20 bikes a year. He’s a man with a mission: bikes aren’t just eco-alternatives for clogged city commuting, they should be objects of beauty too. His signature slender wooden handlebars see to that, as do the sleek contours of the frame itself. It may look like it’s straight from the set of Heartbeat, but make no mistake – with full disc brakes and racing tyres, this is a psycho-cross machine well up to the challenge of eating up those city streets.