NAHBS Coverage – Best of Show, Videos and Photos.

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) was held in Sacramento, CA this assemblage and was bigger than ever! Mtbr and RoadBikeReview strain to wage you with as whatever video interviews and photos as possible. We falsehood a video/photo booth on the exhibit story and schedule appointments with the builders. Some are sort newborn guys meet play discover and others are older friends. During the 3 life of the event, we talked with over 50 builders and shot over 70 videos! Check them discover here and let us know what you think in the comments section.

2012 NAHBS Featured Builders Alchemy Bicycle Co. •Carbon Cyclocross Bike •KVA Steel Road Bike Alliance Bicycles •Titanium 29er •All Road Bike Bamboosero •Bamboosero â€" Enabling a Nation Black Cat Bicycles •Singlespeed 29er •Carbon Fiber and Lugged Steel Road Bike Black Sheep Bikes •Ti Fat Bike “Two Face” Boo Bicycles •Bamboo Singlespeed 29er Race Bike •Di2 Bamboo Road Bike Caletti Cycles •Adventure Road Bike Calfee Design •Carbon Tandem 29er Mountain Bike Dean Ti •Ti Marathon Softail Racer with Belt Drive •Ti ExoGrid Road Bike Don Walker Cycles •Singlespeed English Cycles •18.5 lb Custom SS 29er •Project Right Festka Bicycles •Racing Team Bike •Royal Flush Form Cycles •Fatso” Ti Full Suspension Fat Bike •Stainless Steel Full Suspension 29er Guru Cycles •Photon Inglis Cycles •Steel 29er •Retrotec Steel Ultegra Di2 Road Bike Mosaic Cycles •Colorado Ti 29er •Ti Road Bike Moth Attack •Track Bike Panda Bicycles •Lugged Bamboo Road Bike Pereira Cycles •JBR 29er Steel Pitz Cycles •Cyclocross Bike Rex Cycles •Fillet Brazed Steel 29er Ritchey Design •Tom Ritchey Breakaway Tandem •Ritchey Road Logic •Tom Ritchey Classic 40th Anniversary Frame Ritte •Stainless Steel Road Bike Speedhound Bikes •Only One Steve Potts •Buying & Building the 2012 Award Winning Ti Bike SyCip Bicycles •Unleaded Steel Hardtail (not a 29er) •Jeremy SyCip’s Cyclocross Bike True Fabrications •Road Bike YiPsan Cycles •Cafe Racer •S and S Coupled Randonneur Bike

Trends:

NAHBS is a enthusiastic indicator of where the cycle business is going. For example, a few eld ago most of the builders were display 29er and commuter bikes while they were still an oddity with bounteous manufacturers. But now, that is clearly the growth segment of the cycle industry.  This year, we did wager whatever ordinary themes that we feel will have a gleaming future in cycling:

1) Big Tire Road Bikes – Many manufacturers brought their prizewinning cycle to our booth and at small sextet of them brought agency bikes with bounteous tires. Some titled it an Adventure Road Bike or Dirt Road Bike  but the construct was a agency cycle that crapper go on trails or broken pavement.  It is kindred to a cyclocross cycle but a interbreed cycle typically has unshapely tires, broad lowermost bracket, steep nous angle and intense brakes.  These Fat Tired Road Bikes ingest daylong accomplish calliper brake to attain room for tires up to 34c or beyond.  Some of them ingest round brake as well.   The geometry is kindred to a agency cycle so it crapper appendage and move same a the prizewinning agency bikes.  They key difference really is the bounteous tires earmark the travell er to explore  and ready feat as the beatific paseo ends.  The traveller crapper punch finished trails and parks and ready feat on daylong period rides or multi-day excursions.

Technologies that have made this doable are: round brake or daylong accomplish calliper brake and broad calibre bounteous agency tires.

2) Fat Bikes – Fat bikes are elevation bikes with tires nearly as bounteous as a motorcycle’s. These bikes move on these bounteous tires commonly at 10-12 psi and they earmark the traveller to appendage nearly some terrain.  Initially popular for the snow and beach areas,  the range of fruitful bikes as accumulated  to some terrain available.  When a connatural elevation cycle tire is obstructed by terrain that is fleecy and ungroomed, a fruitful cycle is healthy to move finished and roll over with ease. And despite hunting andante and difficult to maneuver, fruitful bikes are commonly healthy to ready up with connatural elevation bikes in cross-country terrain. Even without some suspension, fruitful offer a easy mate in wrinkled terrain because of the Brobdingnagian tires with baritone pressure. Most fruitful bikes correct today are hardtails but NAHBS showed us face support bikes and side support bikes as well.

3) Bamboo and Stainless Steel Bikes – These newborn materials were rattling ordinary at the show.  Bamboo is utilised because it is sustainable, captivating and it delivers a flexile mate quality.  Bamboo vegetation absorbs a aggregation of the damper and ambiance from the agency or the dawdle so the traveller benefits from a smoother ride. With advanced vegetation activity and manufacturing, builders are healthy to ready the weight downbound and physique broad performance in these frames.  Stainless steel was ordinary likewise as builders dubbed it the ‘cheaper titanium’.  It is durable, corroding proof, reddened same metal but it is most $500 inferior for a same frame. It has an captivating finish likewise that crapper be serviceable easily to countenance same newborn modify after individual eld of riding.

 

Awards:

Every year, NAHBS gives discover awards to the prizewinning bikes of the show. 2012 showcased an activity of winners.

BEST ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS FRAME Paketa Magnesium Bikes BEST CARBON FIBER FRAME Alchemy Bicycle Company BEST CITY BIKE Ira Ryan Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Muse Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Shamrock Cycles BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE 611 Bicycle Co. BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE Moots BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Black Sheep Fab. BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Ti Cycles Fabrication BEST FILLET CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST FINISH Vendetta Cycles BEST LUGGED CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Naked Bicycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Pereira Cycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Retrotec-Inglis Cycles BEST ROAD BIKE Demon Frameworks BEST ROAD BIKE Rex Cycles BEST STEEL FRAME Bishop Bikes BEST STEEL FRAME Ellis Cycles Inc. BEST TANDEM BIKE Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TIG CONSTRUCTION Black Sheep Fab. BEST TITANIUM FRAME Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TITANIUM FRAME Steve Potts Bicycles BEST TRACK BIKE Rebolledo Cycles PEOPLES’ CHOICE University of the Fraser Valley PRESIDENT’S CHOICE Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Stinner Frameworks BEST OF SHOW Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno

 

 

 

Shaver Price