Welcome to Broken Spokes Designs to Pedal’s collection of locally made Bike Crafts: “A large majority of the materials are picked up via bicycles in the Portland area. 90% percent of the materials are re-used: tubes, derailleur cable and chain. ”

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Broken Spoke Designs originated from a 2009 bicycling tour in New Zealand, where owner Nathan Engkjer spent 3 and a half months exploring the north and south islands. 3600 miles (5794 km), 0 flats and 2 drive-side rear broken spokes later, Broken Spokes Designs had its origin. Fast forward one year to a concept of using upcycled bike materials to create a very sustainable, durable and one of a kind journal and sketch book and you’ll find our first prototype: a somewhat horribly designed and user unfriendly product. Bringing you to the present and another year later, Nathan has fine tuned his journals and sketch books. After many labor intensive hours and product revisions you will find a truly earth friendly and unique product.

Unlike other companies reusing tubes we are not picky. In fact we celebrate and incorporate all tubes, big, small, beat up, patched up, marked up and otherwise worked over. There’s a couple of reasons for this. First off, we want our journals to be as unique as each of the people purchasing them. While the design remains consistent, the writing, patches, lack of patches and numbering are all different. No two are alike, making each truly one of a kind, just like you. Secondly and maybe more importantly, Broken Spoke Designs is doing its best to create a product using as low a carbon footprint as possible. A large majority of the materials are picked up via bicycles in the Portland area. 90% percent of the materials are re-used: tubes, derailleur cable and chain. 8% of the materials are recycled: paper 100% post consumer waste. 2% of the materials are new: heavy nylon thread used to stitch the covers and newspaper board which lie inside the front and back cover of each journal and sketch book.*

At Broken Spoke Designs we’re not looking to reinvent the wheel just reuse it. Help us in our mission to reduce, reuse and upcycle. Thank you for caring and we hope that you’ll enjoy our products. *Broken Spoke Designs is continually striving to create a truly 100% upcycled/recycled product. We are committed to making this a reality and welcome anyone with ideas or knowledge to recycled materials in this category.