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Take Note, Indie Bike-Makers: MADE Show Opens Registration

While MADE had initially said that spaces for framebuilders would be free, the event is now asking for $200 to help offset venue costs in…

Written by Andrew McLemore January 25, 2023

New MADE Bike Show to debut in 2023, offers handmade builders free booth space

Lovers of handmade bikes rejoice: A new trade show featuring artisan bicycles will debut in Portland next year. After three years without the North American…

Written by Sam Anderson July 28, 2022

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ Aaron Barcheck of Mosaic Cycles

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due to the…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 30, 2020

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ TJ McArthur of Titanium Joe

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due to the…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 26, 2020

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ Mike Smith of No. 22 Bicycles

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due to the…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 25, 2020

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ Steve of Steve Potts Bicycles

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due to the…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 24, 2020

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ Nao Tomii of Tomii Cycles

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due to the…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 23, 2020

(Long) Road to NAHBS 2020 – Teaser interview w/ Brad Bingham of Bingham Built

Our readers love the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and so do we. That’s why we were all saddened to learn of its postponement due…

Written by Greg Kopecky March 20, 2020

Dynaplug partners w/ Dear Susan Bicycles for Sea Otter-special Meerkat Hooptie

Dynaplug announced a pair of bikes built in partnership with Dear Susan Bicycles “to make a bike honoring their red-wine swilling intergalactic meerkat spirit animal.”…

Written by Greg Kopecky February 27, 2020

Spray.Bike goes metallic, paints your bike with anodized gold, silver or copper!

Spray.Bike colored our opinion of self painted bikes with their amazingly advanced spray paint, which is formulated to dry almost instantly as it turns into…

Written by Tyler Benedict May 15, 2019

TRed seemingly melts metal for latest road, track and drop-bar mountain bikes

Italian small-batch bike brand TRed took home a second-in-a-row award for best track bike this year, and it was quite the looker, but it was…

Written by Tyler Benedict May 09, 2019

Sycip builds a grill onto a trike; Retrotec modernizes with slick bike packer, e-bike & more

Retrotec Cycles is one half of builder Curtis Inglis’ efforts, the other being Inglis Cycles. It’s aesthetics that differentiates them, with the Retrotec bikes getting…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 25, 2019

NAHBS 2019: T-Lab x Burton all-road bike collaboration leads to new R3 gravel bike

Officially called the T-LAB R3 – Co-Lab Edition, this new bike started out as a custom mashup of the bike brand’s titanium road and cyclocross…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 09, 2019

NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019: Regional Themes, Steel Construction

Welcome to our fourth installment of NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019, our analysis of the North America Handmade Bicycle Show. One of the ways NAHBS keeps…

Written by Anna Schwinn April 02, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Impressive paint and finish by FiftyOne, Enigma, Cerreta & Panasonic

Part of the fun of NAHBS is the paint and wicked finishes the builders come up with, many of which are for actual customers who’ve…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 01, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Co-Motion makes first-ever belted gearbox tandem; Cinq improves the shifting

It’s one thing getting the chain timing right on a tandem. It’s a whole ‘nother challenge when you’re putting the shifting in the middle of…

Written by Tyler Benedict April 01, 2019

NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019: Fashion and Style

Welcome to our third installment of NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019, our analysis of the North America Handmade Bicycle Show. In this episode, we look…

Written by Anna Schwinn March 29, 2019

NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019: Summaries by Discipline

In the first installment of NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019, we took a high level look at a set of data gathered from bicycles at…

Written by Anna Schwinn March 27, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Modern steel & aluminum by Deanima, Cherubim & Low Cycles

This year, Toronto-based specialty shop Blacksmith Cycle upped their presence at NAHBS by bringing three of their clients along to their booth. Not only are…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 27, 2019

NAHBS by the NUMBERS 2019: The Overalls

Every year, coverage of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show is dominated by beautiful photography of show-stoppers and observational commentary. While that’s great for folks…

Written by Anna Schwinn March 25, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Upgrades from Chris King, Robert Axle Project & Enduro Bearings

NAHBS always provides a cornucopia of new components, parts and hop-up kits, and this year we found little upgrades from some of the best. The…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 25, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Seven Cycles’ Summer Scrambler beauty, new full suspension MTB & more!

Seven Cycles’ Evergreen SL was turned into this special edition Summer Scrambler for Summer Cycles, and nothing was left behind on this build. They also…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 24, 2019

Paul Component goes green to celebrate 30 years, plus new seatpost sizes & more!

Paul Component is celebrating 30 years in business, and since green is the traditional 30th anniversary color, that’s what they’ve introduced for all the usual…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 21, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Triton teases other builders w/ flat mount dropout, launches Pushka Carbon

Triton hails from Russia and is doing some really interesting things with titanium, which is where they work up full custom frames and have garnered…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 20, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Hunter’s mini-fat folder & Paul stem racks; Black Cat’s winning fillets

Hunter Cycles’ show collection was led by two rather unique new creations: A mini folding fat bike for getting around town regardless of the conditions,…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 19, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Mosaic gets sparkly, adds monster-gravel build option to GT1

Mosaic’s booth was full of their usual custom titanium road, cyclocross and hardtail mountain bikes, but the news was gravel “plus” and paint. Starting on…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 18, 2019

NAHBS 2019: English Cycles’ modular one-sided road bike, travel bike-packer & more!

English Cycles never disappoints, always showing off some of the most creative bicycles and designs at NAHBS. This year, though, he really stepped it up,…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 18, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Bingham Built’s full-susp Campy road bike, prototype Easton cranks

Brad Bingham had one of the most interesting bikes at NAHBS this year, putting the latest Campagnolo Super Record 12 EPS on a modified version…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 17, 2019

Abbey Bike Tools dishes wheels, lifts bikes, adds Squid Bikes “collectors” tool kit

The new Abbey Bike Tools Harbour Gauge wheel dish gauge started out as a one-off surprise gift for someone’s husband who already had virtually every…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 17, 2019

NAHBS 2019: Caletti x Jeremiah Kille custom painted road bike, tiger ti & grinding an axe

Caletti always impresses with his finishes for NAHBS, and this year’s no exception. The Santa Cruz, CA, based builder collaborated with artist Jeremiah Kille to…

Written by Tyler Benedict March 16, 2019

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