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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
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.
Shinya Tanaka is helping stoke Japanese enthusiasm for American-made bikes.
Shin-Ichi Konno of Cherubim won Best in Show and President’s Choice Awards.(Photos and story by Ryan King)
As this young scraper bike aficionado illustrates, the scene outside the NAHBS showroom was full of bike love and handmade pride.
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 builder Dave Levy of Ti Cycles Fabrication won third prize in the Gates Carbon Drive competition for his custom randonneur.
Igleheart has built a clean and easy-to-access light switch into the top cap.
Crowds pack into the Sacramento Convention Center for a glimpse at the best handmade bikes in America.
The bikes are worth a closer look.– NAHBS Photo gallery –
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.
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project