We are very very happy to write this new to celebrate the Shape bicycles 10 years anniversary ! It was well in February 2011 that we create the brand with our partner at the time (not anymore), while our sessions at the Local trail or in his basement / museum thinking about products, logos and mainly finding out the name : SHAPE...
In order to highlight this very particular occasion, we have worked for almost 6 months to summarize this decade of Shape bicycles through our products (officials, signature, prototypes, clothes...), our visuals (including some unseen advertisings), our riders (past and present), our events (publication, partnership, shops, trail, anniversary, travel, social networks, websites...), without to forget an introduction written by Sylvain "BigWheels / Boss" TARO (the genesis of the brand, motivations, made in France, our relation with our suppliers, our customers and mainly our riders...), all this wrapped in a book of almost 50 pages, illustrated by lots of photos and summary texts.
This anniversary book will be on sale very soon (a first batch has just been printed), at 39€ shipping included on our Bigcartel or Banos distro, it will come along with two exclusive gifts only available with the book. We'd like to sincerely thank the photographers who allowed us to use their photos (non exhaustive list) : Banos, Alex Baret, Thibaut Berthou, Béou, Bereflex, David (Pipe), Alex Dropsy, Jacob Dycke (we offer him the cover with his photo from 2011), Antoine Hervouet (photos from the latest Local trail jam and the first two Run trail jams), Pierre Gouret, Janot, Ned Smith, PEF (mainly the video edits), Max Rabiller, PJ (most of the photos come from him), Pompom, Repier, Ringo, Soul BMX et many others... Not to mention our family and our riders for proof reading.
PLEASE NOTE : this anniversary book is also an opportunity to discover the big 2021 new that Shape Bicycles has in the pipe !