Comments on: NAHBS 2009 Saturday Part 1

By: alpesh.yadav

alpesh.yadav — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:43:58 +0000

Hi,

I am from india and i have a bike store and i like your bikes the streets and the road also the mtb’s so im interested to get them in india!

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:28:24 +0000

Brad, the issue isn’t whether there has ever been carbon present at the Show or not. I’ve known there has been, and I know there’s a handful of carbon-only framebuilders that have exhibited in the past.

The issue is that a well-known, custom and until very recently steel/ti-only framebuilder like IF has won a prize for a ‘best carbon bike’. That, I believe, has never happened before. For instance, one might expect someone like Vanilla to win ‘best lugged steel bike’, but not Parlee. One might also expect someone like Calfee to win ‘best bamboo bike’ (if there were such a prize), but not Lynskey.

In other words, someone like IF winning ‘best carbon bike’ is not something one would expect to happen at the Show (and may indeed be unprecedented), and I think it’s very interesting IF has now apparently jumped onto the full-carbon bandwagon (they’ve used some carbon on their frames in the past, but never, to my knowledge, gone full-carbon).

This, I think, is sure to ‘rock the bike’ in the still mainly steel and ti dominated custom framebuilding world.

By: S.K.

S.K. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:43:18 +0000

Rick Hunter’s work gives me such incredible bike wood that my soul gets strained.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:25:27 +0000

Please give me more. My work day is so horrible…more more more more.

By: It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » Technical Notes

It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » Technical Notes — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:50:34 +0000

[...] Urban Velo comes through with some glossy, classy, high-production-value seduction from this year’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show: day one, day one again, day two, even more day two, and day three. [...]

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:56:06 +0000

I love my Broakland.

By: martini

martini — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:09:58 +0000

That Hunter all day road bike just gets me. And I get it. Yummy!

By: brad

brad — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:21:15 +0000

The show has not been a “no-carbon” show by any stretch of the imagination. This was my fourth year there, and there has always been roughly the same presence of custom carbon at the show.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:29:00 +0000

There’s often been a few carbon-only framebuilders, such as Parlee, at the Show. But the Show has been primarily a ‘no-carbon’ show, up until now. With Independent Fabrication winning “best carbon bike”, the question is: has the carbon frame taboo been finally broken among steel-only or ti-only framebuilders? That, to me, is the big bombshell of this year’s show, much more so than Cielo’s launch (who, by the way, will find it very hard to sell admittedly beautiful, but production frames at near custom prices, judging by the pricing on their website, and especially so in this economy).

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:58:29 +0000

I second that sentiment!