Handmade with pride by master craftsmen, with details that make the difference. Dick and I traveled all the way to Austin to check out bikes built by master craftsmen at the NAHBS.
We ogled and gawked and I did my best to capture their beauty with my trusty iPhone 4. Take a look below. If you like what you see, get an even closer look at a gallery of nice lugs from this show.
Click on the thumbnails for high res photos. To fully appreciate these babies, you need to get in close.
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- Handmade in Bend, Oregon by Wade the Vulture of Vulture Cycles.
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- Peacock Groove from St Paul, complete with an Old Style front rack.
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- East meets West at Yipsan of Ft Collins, Colorado.
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- Also from Ft Collins, Black Sheep offers a 36er with beer bottle cage.
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- The Laplander pannier was so striking, I almost forgot to see who made the gorgeous wheel, Bilenky
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- A delightful bike by Sycip of Santa Rosa, California. That’s their logo on the custom Brooks saddle.
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- Boo Bicycles fabricates their bikes with bamboo grown exclusively for them on a plantation in Vietnam.
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- Curtis Inglis builds his Retrotec modern cruisers in Napa Valley, California.
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- Previous “best of show” winner Vanilla Cycles of Portland never fails to please.
