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Shows & Events

March 2019

HBG's tips for NAHBS 2019

The longest-running custom bicycle show starts on Friday, March 15, in Sacramento. With another vintage year in prospect, here are some of the exhibitors and seminars we'll be taking a look at during the three-day event.

Bicycles

February 2018

Contemporary road bikes at NAHBS

With all the buzz currently surrounding the all-road, gravel bike category, it’s worth remembering that the racing or endurance road bike is how many custom builders got started in the industry, and it remains a mainstay of their businesses.

Shows & Events

February 2018

Olivetti Bicycles: off the beaten path

From his workshop in the mountains just west of Boulder, Colo. Peter Olivetti builds bikes suited to the rugged terrain and gravel paths that surround him.

Shows & Events

February 2018

Groovy, man!

Groovy Cycleworks is Wooster, Ohio reisdent Rody Walter's one-man business. He brings fun to the custom bike world with wild paint jobs, and now he uses a new ceramic finish material to make his paint as tough as the bikes themselves.

NAHBS

February 2018

The artistry of Porter Cycles

Brooklyn-based metal artist William Thomas Porter has just launched his framebuilding business, but he's been creating many types of metalcraft from a young age.

NAHBS

February 2018

Moots: gnarly gravel bike

This ain't no grasshopper. Moots brought a prototype titanium soft-tail bike to NAHBS that will have adventure cyclists salivating.

Shows & Events

February 2018

2018 NAHBS Awards

The NAHBS Awards are considered by many to have the most rigorous and methodical judging standards of any cycling event except possibly the Concours de Machines. This is a full presentation of the 2018 NAHBS Awards winners.

Shows & Events

February 2018

NAHBS 2018 comes to New England

The 2018 North American Handmade Bicycle Show kicked off Friday, February 16th in Hartford, Connecticut, the show's first-ever visit to New England. Matt Butterman offers his take at first blush.