Your dream build
Customer favourite gravel, road and mountain bikes
- Shimano 105 R7170 Di2 12-speed groupset
- Sonder Alpha 700c Race UK Made wheelset
- Shimano XT M8100 12-speed groupset
- RockShox Reba RL fork
- Sonder Alpha 29" UK Made wheelset
- SRAM SX Eagle 12-speed groupset
- RockShox Recon Silver RL fork
- Sonder Nova 29" XC UK Made wheelset
- SRAM GX Eagle 12-speed groupset
- RockShox Pike Ultimate fork
- Sonder Alpha 29" UK Made wheelset
- X-Fusion Manic seatpost
How to assemble your new Sonder bike at home
Every Sonder Bike is handbuilt to order by our team of skilled mechanics, personally checked by our Workshop Manager and...
How do I choose the right size bike for me
Want to find the perfectly sized bike for you? We've made figuring out the right size bike a whole lot...
How to fit your bike at home for comfortable all day riding
A good bike fit is essential for long days in the saddle and, as we all know, a comfortable rider...
Expert Design, Obsessive Build
Every Sonder bike is designed and built by us.
We design the frame, build the protos and test on the trails.
Interchange components, swap out wheels or make upgrades.
Have a custom request? No problem, give us a call and we'll make your dream build a reality.
Mountain Journal
How We Make Our Bike Wheels
We build every Sonder to order in our UK factory. And we now build our wheels too. Right here in...
Kit list: Silk Road Mountain Race
Faced with 1700km across the wild trails and remote mountain roads of Kyrgystan. Pete McNeil loaded up his Broken Road with Alpkit luggage and kit. The terrain varied from fast gravel and washboard trails, through to technical single track and...
Sonder Custom Bike Build: Titanium Dirt Jump Bike
If you could build any type of bike in titanium, what would you build? Sonder Product Manager Neil designed himself...
The Wizard of OS Maps
In 2022, Mark Wedgwood achieved the unique feat of cycling 7,300 miles across all 204 OS Landranger maps - in...
Racing the Trans Madeira
Neil Cottam gives us a ‘backie’ on the Pink Panther for five days. Racing across Madeira’s rugged mountains and creating...
Cycling the Caledonian Way
Jenny Graham cycles the Caledonian Way which stretches 234 miles up the West Coast of Scotland from Campbeltown in the south to her home turf of Inverness in the north.
From Gibraltar to Amsterdam
One of our lovely customers, Richard, got in touch to tell us about his off-road bikepacking trip from Gibraltar to...
Highland hopping
4-days in Spring island hopping from Arran to Kintyre and Jura finds freedom on a Sonder Camino. Anna, Alpkit's Financial...
Passo di Stelvio detour: A peace mission
Emma Pooley sheds light on her journey from World Champion and Olympian to dirtbag bikepacker on a Signal Ti. Some climbs are beyond iconic in cycling – they’re more like minor deities. The Stelvio is one such celestial ascent: punishing,...
The Essence of Adventure | Moments of Kindness
We asked our customers to share with us their moments of kindness in the outdoors. Here's one from Matt who...
Boring to Dull a very interesting journey by bicycle
When an adventure finds you, you know. So I realized some months in advance that I would be cycling from...
The West Kernow Way: sometimes the adventure finds you
After returning home from a gruelling but epic bikepacking adventure, the 800-mile off-road Great North Trail, I heard a sound...
Meet the Designer | David and the Goliath? Totally
When you’re small you have to try harder. You trust your conviction and find the difference in the detail. You...
Eight essential trailside skills for bikepacking and cycle touring
In this guide we'll cover eight essential trailside skills for bikepacking and cycle touring as well the essential kit to...
The Essential Guide to Dynamo Hubs
Putting a dynamo hub on your bike means you can power lights and charge your electronics wherever you go. Power...
Real life bike tyre pressures | A complete guide for road, gravel and mountain bikes
The right pressure in your tyres makes a huge difference to your ride experience and safety. It's a generalisation to...