North American Handmade Bicycle Show

Here are a few recent updates from NAHBS exhibitors. As always, a busy group of people! Believe it or not, this is a triathlon frame from Ellis Cycles, winner of the Best Lugged Bicycle award at NAHBS 2009. John Caletti and Curtis Inglis at the Surf City Halloween ‘cross race, from John’s blog. Ro...

Here’s Bob out on a brevet with his Coho Randonneuse.

French builder Cyfac began making white-label pro race bikes back in the ’80s. Today they offer full-custom geometry and colors for their top carbon model, the Absolu. The graphics shown here draw their inspiration from the artist Piet Mondrian. ...

Yesterday’s New York Times featured the growing art and restaurant scenes in Richmond, Virginia – host city of NABHS 2010. Definitely check out these spots in February… 36 Hours in Richmond, Va. AS t...

Co-Motion Cycles from Eugene, Oregon, displayed a versatile range highlighted by their tandem models. The Supremo is their high-performance race bike and – like many of their models – it features the Gates carbon belt drive for the timing cranks. ...

Fillet brazed Terraplane, 48 x 54.5 with a 5 degree top tube slope, and an ultralite steel fork. Designed and built for a lightweight female rider riding the hills in the Bay Area it uses smaller diameter tubes to match her size and weight and not give a harsh ride...

2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Dave Kirk’s start in the bicycle business and his 21st year as a professional framebuilder. ...

Vittorio Fietsen v.o.f. is a Dutch company that are building handmade bikes in Holland. We have been building bikes since 1935. We used to build only tracking and racing bikes, but from the eighties we started building tandem and tracking bikes too...

We ran into Curtis Inglis at the Sturmey-Archer booth, where several of his distinctively curved Retrotec frames were on display. After the Single Speed World Championships followed immediately by three days in Vegas, he was a bit tired but still in good spirits.

‘Osei’ paint scheme The Duende is a rarely explained concept in Spanish art, particularly flamenco, having to do with emotion, expression and authenticity TIG Welded construction with investment cast lost wax micro-fusion dropouts Unique Pegoretti double ellipse tapered chainstay design The Due...

‘Guantanemo’ paint scheme The Marcelo represents the best compromise between performance and comfort The constant diameter chain and seat stays elevate the transfer of energy from the pedals to the wheel TIG Welded construction with constant diameter chain and seat stays Pegoretti stainless ste...

Designed by Dario to be more comfortable on longer rides Columbus Stainless Steel TIG Welded Longer lifetime due to rust proof material The constant diameter chain and elevates the transfer of energy from the pedals to the wheel and the 16 mm chainstays make it more compliant on the vertical...

Not surprisingly, Brooks England had one of the classiest booths at the show. Those rain capes in the photo are designed to be stowed like a saddlebag when rolled up. The Brooks display also included a Union Jack trio of saddles along with this laser-etched Alpe d’Huez topo map. ...

This is another randonneuse I built for an ancien (grand randonnée veteran). He asked for, and got, carbon fiber fenders — wood in laymen’s terms. It’s a new bicycle, but I waited until he rode a 300K brevet before posting a picture.