This bike from Cykelmageren went on to win the Best Artisan bike.
I talked to Rasmus, the Dutch builder, about the inspiration for design.
He said five years ago he sketched the design and now it's come to life.
One of the other bikes in Cykelmageren's booth.
Lots of handmade compontnes on these bikes,
including the brakes.
Check out the wood handgrips and "pullcord" style brake lever.
Third bike in their booth.
The vast majority of booths were bike builders, but there were some suppliers, clothing folk, and component makers in attendance as well. It was a nice mix.
Paragon Machine Works supplies frame building supplies
and machined components. The had several nice displays
of dropouts, brake mounts, etc.
Several nice bikes from Calfee were on display,
and I wish I'd spent more time examining these.
Carbon fiber is Calfee's specialty and
they also work with bamboo.
Kent Eriksen specializes in titanium. They won best tig welded
frame with a tandem frameset. It was stated the judges were
not able to find a single imperfection! And, there's lots of
welding on a tandem bicycle.
I was really diggin' this road bike with its
super clean lines and orange accents.
Seatpost and saddle from above bike.
A full suspension Eriksen. I didn't spend a lot of time
studying the full squish bikes, maybe I should have.
The tubing manufacturer Reynolds.
I had a good talk with Seth Snyder of Snyder Cycles.
He built this bike for buddy to cross race.
My picture doesn't show it so well,
but this paint caught my eye.
Seth said this cruiser is a standard bike
he builds and it sells for just under $1k.
Some fun threads from Endurance Conspiracy.
A big missed opportunity was not better checking
out Speedhound Bikes.
From their web site I've learned this is the Only One Frameset.
The Speedhound Dropout System allows the type of rear
dropout and spacing to be changed to morph the frameset
for road, touring, trail riding, singlespeed, fixed, geared.
Cool concept.
I've always liked Thomson bike components.
Silca was there showing off their Ultimate floor pump.
There were numerous customized pumps on display.
Apparently some of the custom builders are offering
these pumps with paint and graphics matching
a customer's custom bike.
but their bikes are indeed handmade in Oregon.
frames and paint always have a clean look.
Their booth was large but simple, a good
display of their offerings.
Wow, this is going to take a couple more posts to cover, and in some ways, I wish I had taken more pictures. There was so much to see!
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