Portland area bike companies in Sacramento for North American Handmade Bicycle Show
The show is in Sacramento this year.
North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS)
Welcome to BikePortland’s coverage of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. We’ve attended and reported on this show every year since 2006. Below you’ll find links to all our stories and photos.
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Builders boost business at NAHBS
The Metrofiets booth buzzed all weekend (and was popular with bike shop owners). The North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Sacramento delivered record attendance (8,100 people), and it turns out many of them came to do more than dream about a new bike. Some of them came to buy. The blur of a big bike … Read more
More from NAHBS: Hunter’s mountain trekker, MAP’s old/new rando, and the ‘Alcohauler’
There were no female builders was only one female builder at NAHBS, but there was plenty of ‘girl bike love’ on this rig from Mosaic.
Meet Shinya Tanaka; America’s handmade bike ambassador to Japan
Shinya Tanaka is helping stoke Japanese enthusiasm for American-made bikes.
More NAHBS goodness: Pereira, Bishop, Gallus, Metrofiets, Sycip, and Naked
As this young scraper bike aficionado illustrates, the scene outside the NAHBS showroom was full of bike love and handmade pride.
From the aisles of NAHBS: A hub that inflates your tire
The Pump-Hub by Kevin Manning. The bike industry is full of people with big passions and big ideas. Often at industry shows like NAHBS, these garage innovators don’t have the money to buy official exhibit space. Instead, they’ll tuck their new product into a backpack and carry it through the aisles, eager to show it … Read more
Portland builders take home four awards at NAHBS (so far)
Portland builder Dave Levy of Ti Cycles Fabrication won third prize in the Gates Carbon Drive competition for his custom randonneur.
NAHBS Tech: Chris Igleheart’s top cap lightswitch
Igleheart has built a clean and easy-to-access light switch into the top cap.
Massive crowds at NAHBS
Crowds pack into the Sacramento Convention Center for a glimpse at the best handmade bikes in America.
NAHBS Spotlight: A closer look at Paul Brodie’s 1888 Whippet Replica
Tucked away in the corner of the Sacramento Convention Center in a nondescript booth hosted by a Canadian university is a bike that looks like it may have come from another century.
Headed to Sacramento for North American Handmade Bicycle Show
A scene from NAHBS in Austin last year.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Tomorrow morning I’ll hop in a car with a friend and drive 600 or so miles to Sacramento for the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show. NAHBS is the annual showcase of America’s budding handmade bike industry. I’m going down to document and support … Read more
Oregon builders will make big splash at North American Handmade Bicycle Show
Dave Levy of Ti Cycles at NAHBS in Austin last year.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Next week the focus of bikes lovers around the globe will turn to Sacramento, host city for this year’s eighth annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Portland-based builders have always made a a big impression at NAHBS (pronounced “nabs”), and this … Read more
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