Ventus Custom Cycles, based in Ames, Iowa, was founded in 2006 by builder Mark Kargol. Ventus began as a custom frame painting venture, but soon grew to include hand-built frames, such as this beautifully lugged gravel bike. This Ventus is built from carbon tubing and hand-crafted stainless steel lugs, and features internal cable routing, integrated [...]
Boo Bicycles has been getting a lot of love lately in the cyclocross world, in part due to U23 racer Skyler Trujillo racing the bamboo/carbon Boo RS-X cyclocross bike at Nationals and the World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 2009 by Nick Frey and James Wolf, the Fort Collins-based Boo Bicycles, in their words, [...]
Stinner Frameworks, run by Aaron Stinner in sunny Santa Barbara, California, has only been around for a few years. A graduate of the United Bicycle Institute, Stinner hand-crafts steel frames, such as this disc-equipped cyclocross bike we spotted at NAHBS. The steel, fillet-brazed frame features internal cable routing, S-Bend seatstays for added mud clearance and [...]
Predator Cycling has been building custom carbon fiber cyclocross bikes and components for over 10 years in Southern California, an ever-growing hotbed for US cyclocross. Their show bike at NAHBS this year? A disc brake-equipped singlespeed carbon frame with integrated seat mast, stem and handlebar combo and with FSA SL-K carbon wheels, weighing in at [...]
Alchemy is having a good year at NAHBS. The company moved from Austin, TX to Denver, CO, and now, they’ve taken home the prize on home turf for Best Carbon Construction for NAHBS 2013. However, it wasn’t their road bikes that we were interested in, and we got some up close and personal looks at their [...]
Twenty2 Cycles fabricates titanium, steel and aluminum bicycles in Vail, Colorado, just a few hours away from the 2013 NAHBS show. Founded in 2011 by Todd Robison, Ryan Van Ness and Alan Christie, the trio builds road, mountain, cyclocross, and touring bicycles, but also is known for their fat bikes, which can come in handy [...]
Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. brought an intricately-detailed and painted, brazed steel cyclocross bike to NAHBS back in 2012 and walked away tied for first place with the Moots’ Psychlo-X RSL in the Best Cyclocross bike category. In his first three years, Six-Eleven’s Aaron Dykstra has won three awards, beginning with the Rookie of the Year in 2010, Best Track Frame [...]
Our intrepid reporter, Jesse Pisel, was on the ground at the 2013 North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) and spotted a few new rigs from Alchemy Bicycle Company, Engin Cycles, Geekhouse Bikes, and Cielo Cycles. Alchemy Bicycle Company: We’ve profiled Nationals bronze medalist Nicole Duke’s Alchemy bikes before, but we wanted to snap a few [...]
We’re checking out the eye candy at the North American Handmade Bike Show (NAHBS) 2013, and spotted the new TRP Brakes HyRd hybrid hydraulic brake. Two years ago, TRP introduced the Parabox at Sea Otter and Cyclocross Magazine got the first ride on the hydraulic disc brake system for cyclocross that allowed you to use [...]
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