Malcolm grew up in North Liverpool, and in later life moved across the UK & Europe to study and work for a handful of years. Whilst living in Brussels working on IT projects he starting fixing up bikes and doing custom builds as a hobby. Everybody there had old bikes filled with character, just gathering dust in storage, so it was easy to get ahold of nice bikes. When he moved back to Liverpool, he wanted to get into frame building, and so took a short course that taught him everything he needed to know about bike fitting, bicycle design, brazing, and how to build your first frame and fork.
It was with this learning, and some experimentation that Malcolm decided to set up his own bespoke bicycle brand, Ten Street Cycles, homed in the North dock area of Liverpool.