Glasgow cityscape with cyclist crossing the Clyde
🔧 Built in Clydebank since 1998

Three ways to ride.
One place they call home.

City commuters. Gravel obsessives. Adaptive riders who’ve been ignored by the industry for too long. Whatever puts you on two wheels — or three — we build bikes for the way you actually live.

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Three lines. Three worlds. One family.

Every rider deserves a bike built around their life, not someone else’s idea of what cycling should be.

Commuter cycling through a city street
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Urban

Your city. Your commute. Sorted.

Reliable, practical bikes for people who need to get somewhere. Commuters, students, hire schemes, councils. No fuss, no nonsense — just a bike that works every single day.

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Gravel cyclist on a rugged trail at golden hour
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Gravel

Built for the roads that don’t exist yet.

Handbuilt performance for riders who take their gravel seriously. Custom geometry, obsessive attention to detail, and the kind of ride feel you’ll bore your mates talking about.

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Hand-built adaptive tricycle in a workshop
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Adaptive

Every body. Every ride. No compromise.

Custom-built bikes and trikes for disabled riders. Families, therapists, schools, charities, and adults finding their way back to cycling after stroke, amputation, or injury. This is cycling’s most underserved community, and we’re here to change that.

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Industrial workshop with bikes being assembled

Started with one shop on Kilbowie Road. Still here.

Iain McBride opened Clydebank Cycles in 1998 with five staff, a rented unit, and an opinion about how bikes should be built. Twenty-seven years later, the opinions haven’t changed — just the range of people we build for.

The gravel line started because Iain couldn’t find a bike he actually wanted to ride. The adaptive line started because a dad walked in and asked if we could modify a trike for his son. We said yes. We’ve been saying yes ever since.

Our Full Story →
27
Years in Clydebank
3
Distinct riding lines
1
Family business

Adaptive cycling deserves better than an afterthought.

Most bike companies treat adaptive cycling as a footnote. A charity case. A PR exercise. We think that’s rubbish.

Every adaptive build starts with a conversation about what the rider needs — not what the catalogue says is available. We work with families, occupational therapists, schools, charities, and individual riders to design bikes and trikes that actually fit their lives.

  • ✓ Custom builds for individual riders
  • ✓ Institutional and fleet orders for schools and charities
  • ✓ Consultations with therapists and healthcare teams
  • ✓ Modifications to existing bikes and trikes
  • ✓ Ongoing support and adjustment as needs change
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Cyclist riding on an accessible path through parkland

Talk to the right people, first time.

Whether you’re a commuter, a gravel rider, or an institution looking for adaptive bikes — pick your path and we’ll make sure the right person gets back to you.

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Urban Enquiry

Commuter bikes, hire schemes, city council orders, student discounts
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Gravel Enquiry

Custom builds, race bikes, component questions, fitting enquiries
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Adaptive Enquiry

Individual builds, institutional orders, therapy consultations, modifications

Not sure which line you need? No problem — send us a general enquiry and we’ll point you in the right direction.

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