With 24 builders (at last count) currently plying their trade in Portland, this city is the epicenter for America’s bike-making renaissance.
What do builders from other places think about that? Ask 15-year framebuilding legend Curtis Inglis of Napa, California-based Inglis/Retrotec Cycles. Or better yet, check out the T-shirt he was wearing at the Oregon Manifest show…
UPDATE: Here’s my current list of Portland-based bike builders. If you know of others not on this list, please let me know.